The day started off with something that you don't see every day. Two Fargo Police cars were just a few campsites down from ours. The police were watching as a young guy packed up his tent and stuff. All were gone when I passed by there about 10 minutes later. I wonder what he did.
It was a really nice ride today. It was a cloudless day and quite warm. I left Fargo via a pedestrian bridge over the Red River into Moorehead, Minnesota and then cycled along the river for a while before heading over the Old Highway 52. Along the way south, Patrick, a local cyclist, caught up to me and we had a nice chat while we rode together.
I passed through the towns of Sabin and Barnsville with miles of corn in between. 
The countryside started to role gently after Barnsville and everything seemed to be a little greener. As on many other days, I had a constant escort of red shouldered black birds.
This route paralleled the I-84 highway and I could see the vehicles on the I-84 for most of the trip. Because of that, it was rare to see a car on the much slower highway 52. That made for a very peaceful ride.
I covered the 92 km to Fergus Falls in a little less than 4 hours. We had a look around Fergus Falls and found the Veterans Memorial Park that had lots of trees to shade us from the hot midday sun and gave us a nice quiet view of the river for us to set up our "office" for the afternoon.
The local campground was booked up for the night so after we had a BBQ in the park, we packed up and headed for the local Walmart to setup for the evening.
Tomorrow, will be interesting. About 70 of the 100 km will be on the Central Lakes Trail between Fergus Falls and Alexandria. It is an abandoned railway bed that has been paved as a cycling path. It should be great ride without constant sound of cars going by.