68 miles from Monon to Wabash. We woke this morning to a big orange thing in the sky. Turned out to be the sun! Literally hadn't seen it since the day before Dyersville, over a week ago, and it's now rained on us every day since Saturday. I guess we shouldn't have been wishing for a day where we didn't have to wear sunscreen, eh?

At breakfast in Buffalo we met another couple from Oregon who are on our route until just after Niagara Falls and will probably see them again in future days. They'd ridden through SoDak and were near Pierre (she pronounced it wrong: it's really only one syllable) when it hit 117 degrees this summer. Jake, they once lived on their sailboat for 3 years, so maybe one day soon you'll be living the dream!

Not to fear, the sun was not out long today and we road through mist and light rain off an on until just outside of where we planned to camp when the heavier stuff started to fall. Thus, we're now in Wabash at their very nice public library and will be staying in a nice, dry motel room to try to dry out. This rain is really dampening our spirits and there doesn't appear to be any end in sight. Riding into Cleveland in the rain does not really appeal to us, so can someone PLEASE do something about the weather? Oh, and did I mention that we got NE winds again for the 4th straight day?

Finally, everyone drives like they're trying to qualify for the Indy 500 and we'll be so happy to move on to Ohio in a few days.