A Short Tour in North Dakota

This week's bike overnight comes from Joel Bickford of LaMoure, North Dakota. Joel's story, titled "The Sauerkraut Ride: Rural North Dakota," begins like this:Probably not many people view North Dakota as a bicycling paradise. We have harsh winters, and our towns are spread great distances apart. Most of our roads, other than the interstate highways, are busy with farm machinery for a large portion of the year. We are mostly flat, hence the term ?great plains? -- but if you fancy a subtle beauty, bicycling on the prairie is hard to beat. And it ends like this:
Total distance was around 256 miles. It was a fun trip. The Nike people had it right when they coined the slogan ?Just Do It." The bicycle travel and overnights were a blast.Read Joel's Bike Overnight story in its entirety here. While you're at BikeOvernights.org, also check out Todd Murdock's story, which published on April 18: "Travel Tip: A Kid's First Overnight" (it's really good!) Our current Photo of the Week, shown below, comes courtesy of Michael McGrath from his post The Highest Paved Road.
BikeOvernights.org Photo of the Week, 04.20.12.Top photo by Chuck Haney.
--BIKE OVERNIGHTS is posted every Monday by Michael McCoy, Adventure Cycling?s media specialist, and highlights content from BikeOvernights.org. Mac also compiles the organization's twice-monthly e-newsletter Bike Bits, which goes free-of-charge to more than 44,000 readers worldwide.Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/04/short-tour-in-north-dakota.html