Awoke with a start at 0615, briefly considered getting up to Blog as I am a couple of days behind, rolled over and went back to sleep instead. Re-awoke at 0730 just in time to get ready, pack the bike and depart, right at the stroke of 0805! Our route was very straight forward today, straight south on 81, a lovely tertiary agriclutural road, at times 2 lane divided, most often single lane, lightly traffic'ed, flanked by corn, corn and mo'corn! Within 45 minutes...

Woke up at 0630, not feeling the greatest, didn't sleep well, or at least not long enough due to the smoker's party outside my window, but a deal is a deal so I was packing up the bike at 0745, determined to be ready to go at 0800 sharp! Heading south east-ish out of Williston we headed towards a darkening sky. The highway was somewhat Dystopian with archaic rusty pump jacks running on either side each with a flare stack, some with smallish flames others with hu...

North Battleford, SK to Minot, ND (850 km). Woke up at 0800 and started packing to leave forthwith. Midway through packing, and that only takes about 15 minutes, my mouth started pounding. It has become a tradition for me to have dental surgery just before I leave on a bike trip and this year was no different. So I took some Advil and went back to bed. Departing around 1100 a little bummed out at the loss of quality riding time, but my spirits were buoyed by the ...