We travelled approximately 329km to our lunch stop in Park Rapids - driving in the main on graded gravel and dirt roads in an area know as Land O'Lakes Forest, having seen no wild life up until now I really had hoped today would be a little different but other than the occasional large deer, there was nothing. Where are all these moose we are warned of?
Still the scenery was lovely and it was nice to be travelling off the beaten track, passing lots of small lakes and down beautiful leafy lanes. Five passage controls manned and unmanned marked our route just to be sure no one tried to take a short cut - penalties would be given if so.
Lunch stop - West Forty in Park Rapids, a quirky little road house filled with tractor memorabilia.
After lunch we had two regularities in close succession the first we think we zeroed but the second showed we were 5 seconds late!!! We did not agree with this so will need to talk to the marshals tonight to question the results, we have been no more than 2 seconds out since recalibration on day two so feel there has to have been an error somewhere.
A marshal avoiding the Mosquitos
Leaving the gravel tracks and trees behind us after the regularities we found our selves out in wide open farm land which for a short time had lovely undulating curves with fantastic sweeping roads carved through the middle, this very quickly returned to the wide open plans with few trees and with the occasional heard of very healthy looking cattle grazing in the sunshine.
The rest of the trip to Grand Forks was pretty uneventful and arriving at the hotel we could see things were not about to change so after a few drinks in the bar with friends we decided to eat alone and have an early night.
Checking the board before we retired - still holding 2nd place but having given a second back to Car 27, well done boys you are holding us at arms length.
Tomorrow is another day, let's see what can be done.
Big Sky!!!!!
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