Cycling Napoleon to Sandusky through Flat Ohio roads – with a tailwind.
MapMyRide Stats: 88 Miles | Time: 5:20 | 16.5 Mph
The day started with thunder and lightning. We woke up to a boisterous thunderstorm that slowly phased itself out as we left our campsite at the Bayshore campground and headed out in the dark with wet roads and dark clouds ahead.
The temperature on this July afternoon was 74 degrees…it was excellent!
The weather turned on us as it cleared up by mid-day — a high of 74 degrees with a crystal blue sky. The cool summer day was complemented with a tailwind and then a blue sky. We have got to be the luckiest cyclists ever on the Big Ride Across America!
The clouds gave way to a brisk tailwind and blue sky
Can you see the tailwind blowing the soybeans in the same direction we traveled? I love tailwinds!
Once we got to Sandusky, we found these amazing insects — the Mayfly. There is a website called the Mayflies of Lake Erie which gives all the background on this localized insect. Mayflies usually live for 24-72 hours. They spend 1-2 years on the bottom of lake Erie as a nymph living burrowed in the mud. They hatch around June and can be found everywhere around the lake. They fly around lights at night and then latch on once they get tired of flying.
Sometime around the middle of May and lasting into July, there is a plague of insects that strikes the cities, towns, and villages along Lake Erie’s shoreline: the Mayfly.
Mayflies were all over the men’s shower door
Home Sweet Home for two nights at the KOA campground in Sandusky, Ohio
Cathy's Big Ride Across America 
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