Medora is a few miles south of the interstate, and it was a bit of a climb to get back. Nothing like a good climb to start the day. We continue to have very beautiful weather, sunny and warm, but not hot. And another day with crazy strong tailwinds!
We only had to ride on the interstate for 10 miles, and there was a scenic overlook along the way, of the Badlands. Really beautiful. Then back to a quiet two-lane road. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but the wind disguised the fact that my back tire was low. Dave noticed it, and since it wasn’t flat, we decided to air it up since the next town, Dickinson, had a bike shop. But we should have taken a clue from the name of the shop: Steffan's Saw and Bike. Yeah, he sold both saws and bikes, and it was one of those junky kind of places that I prefer to avoid. Dave thought something we couldn’t find was stuck in my tire (this was my third flat), so he wanted the guy (Steffan, I assume) to try putting green slime in one of my tubes. It didn’t work, so we just went on. And then, of course, about half an hour later in a construction zone, we had to change the tube. In the next town, Richardton, much smaller than Dickinson, is Assumption Abbey, a Benedictine Monastery, which has been there since the late 1800’s. Someone told us a story that when the abbey was new, the monks made money by gathering buffalo bones (because there were so many) and selling them to be made into bone meal. We could have stayed at the abbey, but we were too late, and there was no one to help us. So on we went to the cute little town of Hebron, where we could camp in the city park and shower at the pool. However, we were told that we had to shower with clothes (swimsuit) on, a new rule we hadn’t encountered before. And no hot water, of course. But better than nothing.
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