A few less words...

I am typing this from a library Kadoka, SD. The wind has been terrible over the past few days. Mostly blowing from the South and gusting above 30 mph most of the time. This is keeping us slow. We have camped the past two nights but have had a pleasant time.

We also keep meeting folks that are doing similiar things to us. Just in the past few days we have camped or ridden with two guys pedalling from Conneticut to San Diego, two guys pedalling from Florida to Alaska (one of whom has ridden over 1 million miles...http://www.dannychew.com/) a guy WALKING from Philadelphia to San Fransisco, a guy riding from New York to Hong Kong (this is Leon who we have befriended) and two Blugarians pedaling from Pennsylvania to California. WOW! I guess because there are so few towns is South Dakota everyone is funnelled into the same area...

I(Andy) never really understood what people meant when they said "big country." Now I get it. Many of the towns we pass through only have 100 or so people in them. Sometimes 500 if we are lucky. Everything else is just rolling hills covered in grass and cows. The wind is big, the sky is big, the hills are big, the sun is big. They all seem to persistently point out just how great their creator must be.