I traveled about 78.3 miles today.
This is Mark and Celeste, my warm showers hosts today. By some crazy coincidence, I already knew their son, Mike, from working at Many Point Scout Camp. I had recognized the surname, but thought it was just a coincidence. What's are the odds? Got an early start this morning, but highway 7 did not have the wide shoulders promised by the Minnesota DOT bicycle map. I'm still pretty upset about that, as a misleading map is worse than no map at all. I ended up rerouting north to take some less busy roads to Montevideo, which added about ten miles. Not a big deal, but I would have been SOL without my phone or cell service. Going to watertown tomorrow. I pretty much have to take 212 all the way in, there are no good alternate routes as almost all parallel roads are unpaved. Oh well, I'm not the first to go this way, and I won't be the last.