the middle of... somewhere.

sorry to leave you all hanging there. hopefully some people are reading this, and i am not just being totally self-indulgent, although i'm fine with that also.

of note: this past week we have completed 3 significant median milestones, if you could call them that.

1) 1,500 miles. well, each 500 seems to come more quickly and with less exuberance than the last, although the 'theoretic' halfway point is still exciting.

2) Rugby, North Dakota. Bet you didn't know they have a city (town) called that did you? the fact that we camped in a public park here the night of the homecoming football game gave me a lot of time to think about all the stupid puns and confusing "who's on third"-style jokes that could me made about the Rugby sports teams, but i'll let that one be. More importantly, I bet you also didn't know that that rugby, nd is the Geographical Center of North America!. While the weird old hippies and people who work for adobe try to claim fremont as the 'center of the universe', Rugby at least has the US Geological survey to back them up with their pretty-much meaningless distinction.



Oh yeah, they also have this sweet cairn/obelisk to make it official.

3) 3 weeks on the road! With 21 days of riding under our belt(s), we seem to be disproving the haters out there that said we could never make it in 6 weeks. At our halfway juncture here in Grand Fork, ND, on the border of Minnesota, we are staying at a pretty posh Holiday Inn (w/ indoor waterpark!!!) in order to contemplate our greatness, not to mention sleep in a bed for the first time in 3 weeks.