Today was an important day in our journey. We rode 21 miles to the place where Sharons mom lived her childhood, Dickey. We had received directions for getting to the original homeplace. We took the wrong road and gave up after 3 miles of gravel roads. We then went to the graveyard to find the graves of my grandparents. When we got there someone stopped to chat. She turned out to be a distant relative and drove me to the homeplace. I met her husband, Kelly meikeljohn, and there is definite family resemblance. We had an early lunch in the Farmers Cafe (owned by the farmers in the community for over 25 years). I talked with a woman, Rita, who knew my grandmother.
We left Dickey about 11:30 and we knew we had about 50 miles to go. We enjoyed seeing the massive fields of crops growing. There was not much traffic and only a few hills. At 58 miles we had a steep 1 mile hill that was not enjoyed. We go into "granny gear" and slowly make our way.
Tomorrow our destination is Fargo. We will take a rest day there. We will enter Minnesota after that. We think we have covered about half the distance of our trip.
3 comments:
Yay! For the "Dickey encounter" and your halfway mark! How exciting! Keep up the good work, riders.
It was nice meeting you. We were talking to friends and told them about our encounter this morning. They thought it was interesting and just neat. Hope the rest of the trip goes well.
Kelly and Mona Meiklejohn
Wow how very faithful God is to bring together the meeting of people who you are related to and who know people from your past to share stories with you. I can picture the smile on His face as he watch your God designed reunion.
I remember taking photos of fields and of the barn styles as we drove across some of the same parts of the US. So interesting to see and you are really experiencing it up close....any allergy issues? LOL
This is the first time I've heard you refer to the Granny Gear! LOL
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