Mileage: 57.9; 1,857 total
This was another somewhat uneventful, day. I got off to a reasonably early start, had a good breakfast, and after about 20 miles I stopped in the small town of Halliday to cool off and take a break for about an hour in a little restaurant. Then I continued, and also stopped ten miles later to take another one hour break, in the community of Dodge, the only other stopping place along the way. I was glad to escape the heat, but when I got out of Dodge I was sorry to find that the wind had shifted from the south to the east, so that I now had a light headwind, making the remainder of my ride much longer than I had been expecting.
Toward the end of the day, with about 4 miles left to go, I came to a road construction area. Cars were only being allowed through, one direction at a time, in "convoys" that followed a "pilot car." I was told that I could not bicycle through the area, because of the soft gravel made it too dangerous for bicycles, and that I could throw my bicycle in the back of the "pilot car," which was actually a pick-up truck. So I gladly accepted, and soon was camped at a very nice RV park in Hazen. (Note: the miles in the truck were not added into my trip total!)
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