I think we've decided to hang out here in Fargo, North Dakota for another night. The plan was to leave today after taking care of a few things, but Fargo is actually much nicer than expected. We had a few things to take care - bike shop, post office, shave beards into mustaches (karl only).
The bike shop in Fargo, Island Park Cyclery, is nice and incredibly helpful. Tom helped us tighten Devin's bottom bracket and gave us a good route out of town. This was the first decent bike shop since Whitefish, MT.
We're about to go use the $100 Scheels gift card given to us by a farmer named Kevin in Arthur, ND (Scheels is the REI of North Dakota). I met Kevin and some other nice guys at the gas station getting their morning coffee before heading out to work. We talked for a while about farming, biking, missile silos and other things. They are growing soybeans, corn, wheat and sugar beets. The farming communities here in eastern North Dakota seem to be doing very well.
We have traveled far enough now that people don't believe us when we tell them we biked from Seattle. They have a lot of questions, mainly - why did you ride your bike here from Seattle?
A few more errands to run - we'll update again soon!
Donald
3 comments:
webisode 3 is awesome!
webisode 3 is awesome!
I think what you guys are doing is really amazing!!!
I'm orginally from Arthur ND, so I recognized a lot of the stuff in your pics!!
My dad is Kevin, the farmer. He had a lot of great things to say about you!!
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