Today will be the shortest blog since we did nothing but ride major highways to get as far as possible. We fell short of our goal to get to Davenport, Iowa. The total mileage to get home is 477 miles. We did like 420 today. If I get within 100 miles of home, I am not stopping to camp. I will ride from Indy in the dark just to get home.
I saw corn fields, soy bean fields, cows and windmills. Iowa is flat and windy. They also have noticeable flood damage still. We thought we were slowing down for an accident and it was actually people looking at the high waters. We saw a couple vans and some mobile homes floating up next to the road. I can only imagine what it's like around this area with the amount of rain they have gotten.
My Honda speedometer is not accurate with its speed. I have to go 80 to actually go 75. That puts my mileage off from John's Garmin. I'm approaching 6000 miles for the trip. I expect my mileage will be closer to 6500 at the end of this trip. John will have the actual numbers!!!
Jeff's Alaskan Bike Trip 2010
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