Today’s winds were forecast to be 8 mph sustained with 18 gusts building to 15 sustained and 27 gusts. This forecast tends to stifle any cyclist’s enthusiasm.  But I had places to go and people to see!

The trip was planned at 46 miles but I took some short cuts on main roads.  Much of my route was sans medians but traffic was light.  Here’s the typical farm road along the route (note the clouds):

As shown above, the day was partially cloudy.  There were very sharp-edged shadows of the clouds on the road.  I noticed that the cloud shadows were passing me at about three times my speed of advance.  The winds were zooming along, fortunately mainly in my direction of travel.

Heavy rain was forecast beginning at 4 pm.  So I sped through the journey arriving at my destination at noon. I hung out at a local McDonald’s until check-in time.  I entered my hotel room at 3 pm just as the heaven’s opened up.  The rain continued through the night.

Once again, unstable WiFi forced me to suspend attempts to update this blog.

Today’s tally: 42 miles.