In the middle of no where!!

Hey everyone sorrry for the lack of corrispondance but we were really busy in Aberdeen durring our break there and once we stepped out of Aberdeen we stepped into the middl of BFE, I wont elaborate on that acranim but you can figure it out for yourself. Today is the first day that we have had access to the internet, let alone the library. So thanks for baring with us. Now let me give you the run down.
June 23rd
When we got up in Milbank it looked like déjà vu, I woke up at 5.30 and it was so foggy I could hardly see. The fog put a hold on our riding until later into the day which ment hotter weather. I asked Kelly what we should do and she asked if I was hungry so we headed down to the corner dinner called Trevet’s Café. The food was alright and we met some nice people when were waiting for our food. Like most older people we met along our way they were interested in what we were doing and in turn thought we were a bit crazy and we probably are but heck we’re having a great time. When we were finished eating Kelly paid the bill and I went outside to call the radio station to give them an update on our progress. They told us there was a storm front moving our way but it looked beautiful to me, by know all the clouds had lifted and the sun was shining bright. When we left Milbank we had to climb “Mount Milbank”, it was a small over pass leaving town but it was the only hill we had seen in days. The ride started out fine, we were making good time but it didn’t last long. Within about 5 miles we were met with a brutal head wind. This turned the ride into a tooth and nail battle to stay on the small shoulder while tractor trailers were flying by almost pushing us off the road in typical condition now it was causing a confusing swirl of wind that forced me off the road. It was a bit dangerous because of the small shoulder and then there was loose gravel on the side that caused my bike to get a little squirly at times. The morning ride didn’t quite go how I expected, I thought it would be a pretty easy ride with a small hill section and we would have made it to Webster by lunch, which was about 45miles. Instead had only hashed out 19 miles to the Summit truck stop. It was a very long morning and we sat down to enjoy some chuck wagon burgers and ice cold Mt. Dew. It was a much needed hour break that rested our legs and put our differences for the morning at rest. After lunch the ride was a little easier. The wind had died down but someone had turned the thermostat to 11! It was hot, in the upper 80’s and there is absolutely no shade on hwy 12. There isn’t much shade on any highways but especially not in SD. It was nice though that the shoulder had quadrupled in size so Kelly and I could ride side by side and talk about all sorts of good things. It was nice to see the farther west we go the people become more receptive and friendly. We were getting a lot more waves, honks and thumbs up, so that was cool. By about mid afternoon we had made it to Waubay and had to stop and get our usual afternoon cool down break, which consists of sitting in air-conditioning and eating ice cream. Waubay has a cool little ice cream shop call the Purple Cow, and the ice cream was great. We were both a little reluctant to head out in to the heat again after such a nice break but we couldn’t sit there all day. Once again, back to the bikes. It wasn’t too long before the heat drove us back inside though. We road about 10miles further to a little bit bigger town of Webster and since it was too early for dinner, it was only 2.30 or so we located the library and went there to kill some time and beat the heat. After an hour or so at the library we head back down the street the way we came and decided it was still too hot to ride so we pulled into a little dinner and ate an early dinner. The food was great and by the time we had left it had almost dropped another 10 degrees. So it made riding a bit easier. We pulled into Bristol SD. It looked like a ghost town there were a few cars parked on the road but all the shops were closed and it looked as if no one was around. We flagged down an older couple that were headed our way in a golf cart. We ask were we could get a cold drink and they were like right here and we told them it was locked and they said nonsense you must have tried the wrong door. It turns out that the older couple in the golf cart knew my grandparents. So we paid the $2 tab and head to the park. We were so tired we just sat in the shade for a good 30mins before we even tried to set up the tent. Just after we got the tent set up we saw a red truck that had a familiar decal on the side and Kelly was like hey isn’t that your mom’s truck and I was like no it can’t be but it was my parents drove down to see us, they couldn’t wait another day to see me. It was nice though. We said good bye to my parents and headed over to the outhouse, to find it was locked. So we had no bathroom and we were in the middle of the neighborhood so we couldn’t just do our business outside. So the public restroom was only about 4 blocks from the park and city hall wasn’t much but a two room brick building, one being the bathroom. So we did our business and cleaned up in the sink and then made our way back to our tent. I was so exhausted, all I wanted to do was sleep so I covered the bikes and put the rest of the stuff away and got in the tent but I couldn’t sleep. I still felt gross and sticky and it was humid out. After a bit it cooled off a bit and I finally fell asleep.