Thursday - Shitty roads

The humidity meant for an incredibly sweaty night producing a sodden tent both inside and out in the morning which wasn't nice! After packing the wet rag of a tent up we left for another hilly days cycling through Iowa.

Our first stop was in Corning for another healthy pastry filled breakfast at a bakery. Yet again Jack asked for something without egg and somehow managed to get a wrap thing filled with egg and not much else. Tom also hit the language barrier while trying to buy two dozen donut holes. It was only 8am and thing were already not going good!

Nothing much else happened on the terrible roads of Iowa that morning so to try and make the blog a little less boring we thought we'd share with you some of our favourite conversation topics of the past few weeks.....

1. Could we make our fortune by copyrighting/buying the rights to the design of the american flag as we seem to pass about 100 each day

2. How everyones bowels are performing including discussions about size, shape and dexterirt

3. What, how and where we could pick up some fancy dress ensemble en route so that we can roll up into Times Square looking like complete idiots whilst disrupting the traffic as much as possible

4. (my favourite) Trying to peer pressure Ben into proposing to his girlfriend (its about time) just so that we can organise a stag weekend to Vegas....we're slowly grinding him down

So after another subway for lunch we had another uneventful ride to another all you can eat place at the top of some hill. More cycling later and we had a drinks stop at some gas station and then cycled through what looked like the welsh countryside but with worse roads to arrive at another burger place for more food. After this we got lost for a bit in a small town, asked some sweaty bloke cutting his grass for directions and then arrived at the Red Haw state park campsite. A quick shower later we dried out the tent, had a romantic wander round the lake and then hit the sack. Done.

So in other new we were wondering if anyone has any friends, family or acquaintances in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana or Pennsylvania that would be interested in parting ways with a portion of there homes where three young British ultra endurance charity athletes could lay there heads??? If so let us know!

Also Tom has requested that if anyone has any spare time and fancies a moan then could they email the Iowa Department of Transport to ask them what the f**k is going on with the roads here (in particular hway 34), cheers.