In the town of Alexander we stopped at the local museum. When Joe and Jeff stopped it was not yet opened. HP’s timing was much better. There, HP met Leann Eriockson, the museum curator, retired teacher, and a reporter for the Watford City News. After a tour and local history lecture HP was interviewed about our bike ride. It seems that our Swiss friend is getting more press coverage then President Obama.
With the change in time zones, Jeff and Joe got into town really early. They checked out the town’s one hotel and decided to camp in the town park. It took several more trips up and down Main Street until they made all of the arrangements and paid the fees. It is a lovely park and it reminded them of their Adventure Cycle trip across the United States. On that trip, town park camping was relatively common.
For lunch we went to a local café where our waitress (who was old enough to be our mother) told her daughter “those guys look to old to be cycling.” Despite the comment the food was excellent and the sandwiches were packed with lots of good stuff. Rumor has it that one of us had a slice of pie for desert.
The rest of the day was spent relaxing and enjoying the quiet. However, when we went for dinner, our first choice restaurant had a sign posted in the window that read "Taking a Snow Day." We had to go further down the street for our evening meal.
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