So it looks like another 100 miles or so of rain. At least it only
started an hour ago. I'm in Mitchell – west of Salem on the map…

Having a burger…

American culture at it's best 🙂

To take a break from the rain and follow a friend's suggestion I
stopped at this place – no idea what it is… Let's see 🙂

Pretty uneventfull ride till now except for a flock of geese or some
other large bird migrating south – just like me 🙂

So off to the 5th day of the trip… going to try to get to Badlands
National Park – 445 miles – very long stretch for one day but let’s
see how far I go… forecast is a little rain on the way but I should
plow through it in no time 🙂

Argh!! Problems with my credit card – several unrecognized withdrawals
and purchases!!! Call with Citibank keep getting dropped. They're
going to have to cancel my card and I will have to go to an agency to
sort it out.

Unnecessary aggravation 🙁

Kind of out of sync with the other updates but here’s a little bit of video I took during these first 4 days 🙂

Seemed like a "major" city and was getting tired – nice houses by the
lake. Going to check the weather but I think I'm just going to get a
hotel again tonight – very windy and grey skies 🙂

Wind farm – along with endless miles of corn 🙂

Ok – the rain stopped and so did I. In the "historic" town of La
Crosse – guess it's where the game started – with the Indians? Will
check Wikipedia later 🙂