Rochester, MN to Albert Lea, MN

Winds today were a problem, we were heading almost straight west and for almost the entire ride, we were riding into a WNW wind of about 20 mph (almost 20 miles straight into us), so the day was tough and long, but we managed to keep ourselves entertained, and made it into Albert Lea by 1:30PM.  The amazing women of the First Evangelical Church left us some delicious cake from a baptism earlier that day, then made us a great meal of lasagna, salads, and tons of fruit, and some amazing desserts, including some really good strawberry fluff.  The women were also pretty heavily Minnesota accented, and were more than happy to repeat things like, "Doncha know, eh?" and  "Oh sure, you betcha," so we also really appreciated that.   We were also able to find bag milk(its just milk thats sold in a bag) for the first time, and the team loved it, and at least half the team bought bags of regular and chocolate milk, which was much more delicious than regular milk, for reasons which no one can really agree on.

After dinner, I did my first portraits project, where we met Wayne, who told us his story of how he survived bladder cancer.  It was really cool to finally be participating in a crucial part of this group that I hadn't gotten the chance to take part in yet, and I am very intrigued to see how the final project turns out.  For those of you who have forgotten, we are planning to make some sort of compilation like a website or coffee table book with all of these people's different stories, at some point in the future. 

States traveled through:13(NY,NJ,PA, DE, MD, DC, VA, WV, OH, IN, IL, WI, MN)
Distance today: 71 mi
Total Distance traveled:  1823 mi