Yesterday was our second day off. I slept until 8:00 and saw the sights in Pontiac. I went to the swinging bridges, which you're not actually allowed to swing, but they do sway when you walk on them. I went to the route 66 museum and saw some murals. I spent the afternoon playing a game called jungle speed and hanging out with some friends and some visitors we had.
Today we woke bright and early at 5:00 again for a 62 mile ride into Peru, IL. For the past several days we've had winds from the southwest but today since we were spending a lot of time going north we had winds from the north so we spent most of the day battling headwinds. Other than that it was mostly uneventful other than I took another fall going into lunch. I started into a parking lot, but there was a giant hole so I thought I might not make it so I stopped but forgot to unclip and went down and landed poorly. I ended up landing on my wrist and absorbing most of the impact in my shoulder so I'm fairly sore right now. I was able to finish the day after taking all non essentials out of my camelbak although I wasn't able to signal with my left arm because my shoulder tightened up so much. It's feeling better now and I expect in a few days it will be all better. Tomorrow we cross into Iowa and I begin the part of the route that I have deemed the reverse RAGBRAI.
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