Day 1

I survived riding day 1! We made it to hamilton, IL today. About 72 miles from where we stayed last night. All day katy and jayne were raving about the lack of panniers. It made me a little nervous about what is to come. It was a long but comfortable day with rain on and off.

Towards the end of the day we rode through a huge bunch of may flies for about 3 miles by the mississippi river.

For dinner, nora made us true brats! The food has been amazing. After what felt like hours of work trying to get a fire going katy and i had given up hope to sit and watch it smoke. All of the sudden, it caught! So thanks to the little dry wood nora brought us we defeated the wet wood and got the fire going.

Tomorrow we will try and push ahead between 80 and 90 miles. We are trying to get a lot of miles in before we loose the car and have to carry our panniers.