Days 8 & 9. June 21 & 22. Rained again last night. We got off to an early start for us and were on the road by 9:00. There was not a motel or campground between dyersville and elkader, so we needed to make it in one day. Stopped in colesburg for lunch / bartender said there was only one steep hill between colesburg and elkater and smiled when he said it. Every hill we came to we kept saying this must be the one. I did get over 40 mph a couple of times going downhill today. Arrived in elkater about 4:15. Found the city park, next to turkey river, which is very nice. Elkater's a very nice town. It's like being in the 60's again. The people are very friendly. We decided to take Wednesday off and just take care of business, bike maintenance, laundry and rest. the natives told us about absorbine jr which is suppose to repel the buffalo gnats. Hope it works. The gnats just
hatched which is suppose to last about 3 weeks. Next time we take a trip we need to google insect hatches for the area. Next stop should be Marquette, ia.