It looked like a pretty easy day on the map but it turned out to be a real grind. I broke a spoke yesterday and didn't have a replacement so I had to wait until the bike shops opened at 10 am this morning. By 11 am, Revolution Cycle and Ski had my rear wheel fixed and straightened yet again. I bought a couple of extra spokes to fix the inevitable additional breaks that I will likely see in the coming weeks.
Up until the last couple of days, I've ridden mostly on the major highways. In many cases, they were the only paved roads possible. Now some of the highways are no longer legal for me to ride on and and I wouldn't want to anyway. Often, there are "Old Highways" that run almost parallel to the interstate highways that are much calmer.
The ride today was only 71 km but it was hard. It has become a lot hillier but the biggest issue was the wind. A head on wind at about 25 km/h. This was the third day in a row of significant headwinds and I think that I was just worn out. So tomorrow, I'm taking a day off. We are just outside of Minneapolis, the largest 
city that we have run into so far on this trip and this day off will give us a chance to explore a bit.
We were invited to dinner at the home of a friend of a friend, Michael (and his dogs, Spike & Petie). He made us a wonderful dinner and we had some great conversations.