There has been a very interesting phenomenon that I have observed, you know how rainbows move as you get closer to them, well the same goes for cloud spots on the road as a form of shade. We can go very many miles without any trees and the sun is burning hot on our bodies, and you just wish for a spot of shade. Then you look up the road and see a large shady spot on the road caused by the clouds, and you ride faster to get to it to cool off for a moment, but as you ride faster the shady spot seems to move! Just like chasing the rainbow to get to that pot of gold at the end of it, you ride even faster and soon you do actually catch up to it and instead of the pot of gold, there is that wonderful cooling relief that sweeps over you which at that moment is worth more than gold!
The road is wide open and you can see down it for miles and miles. It can be relatively flat with a few rolling hills, trees, and silos here and there, and as we get closer to a town, such as it is, it will look like it is about 2 miles ahead, (this is after testing distances with my Cat Eye on my bike, guessing and checking to see if I was right)they look so close, and yet they have been between 5 and 7 miles ahead. It is an interesting phenomenon!
Fort Belnap Indian Reservation Mission
This morning at the pharmacy we took our blood pressures and pulses and they have gone down, especially our resting pulse. For years my pulse had been 72, and now it is 57. My blood pressure was always 112/72 and now it is 111/66. By now you saw the selection of magazines at the local pharmacy, I usually look at the interior decorating magazines, and when I saw "Flea Market Style" I just wanted to laugh. It was such a perfect moment! They had no other decorating magazines!!
While we were at the theater last night they had their advertising for local stores and one was for a store in town called "Flicks". This is such an amazing and diversified store: they had videos for rent, they rented tuxedos for special occasions, had dry cleaning service, had a deli, served fresh caramel rolls just out of the oven! We have seen so much ingenuity in small town America! Just makes me smile.
About 2 1/2 miles before we came into Glasgow, and 1/2 mile before the disastrous flat and injury, there were these small rolling hills along the road full of all kinds of animal and dinosaur sculptures with a sign saying "sculptures for sale". Definitely a roadside curiosity.
We are looking forward to resuming the ride tomorrow, but will miss the camaraderie of our fellow travelers who had gone on ahead. I am sure we will meet more. I think it is time for lunch and stoking up for tomorrow. After that another nap, then dinner and more stoking up! Then to bed for a good nights rest.
Love to ya'll - Alicia
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