North Dakota ... underrated!

Gackle, ND, home of the Honey Hub, the "respite for bicyclists" at the home of warmshowers.org hosts Jason Miller and his family, was fantastic.  Dinner at the local bar/grill with Mookie who was also camping at the Honey Hub was delicious, and it was fun and very informative/useful to hear his stories since he was riding in from the west exactly where I will be going.

 In addition, the landscape is not nearly so flat and monotonous as I was expecting (and as it in fact was for about the first 100 miles west of Fargo).  There's now some nice hills and lakes and such that are really pretty.