Departed Dyersville, IA 7:05am and Arrived Muscatine, Ia 5pm. Travel Time: 78 miles, 6hr and 15 min. Today was our best travel day. Today the wind was at our backs so we had great speed. When we got to Onslow we stopped at a small cafe to get lunch and take a little break. When we walked in you could hear a pin drop....all the locals stared at us, we smiled and said "HI". One of the locals said " Oh you must be biking" we said "yes" and everyone went back to their own thing. A lady came over and sat right next to Amber and started asking us details about our trip, She was a hoot. After we told her about our route she ran home and got an Iowa state map to give us detailed short cuts! We like those. her short cut took off 10 miles, However the last 7 miles of it was on extremely loose gravel, to dangerous to ride. We walked our bikes until Shawn waved down a nice man in a pick-up truck who gave us a ride to the nearest town of Wilton. However he dropped us on the wrong side of town from where our route was. We ended up riding 10 miles to Muscatine on the busiest highway with no shoulder. A semi actually pushed us both off the road...that was our very first encounter with a jerk!!
Shawn broke 3 spokes today, that makes a total of 11 spokes since we've started. We went to yet another bike shop, and since it was so late we set up an appointment for tomorrow to get his bike looked at. We stayed at the Super 8 Motel, it was the closest to the bike shop and town. The lady at the front desk gave us such a great rate after hearing our story. We only paid $43 after tax and at this point we are still within our total budget, but spending faster then we had planned. We are starting to re evaluate our route.
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