It would have been dumb to ride today

Wednesday, 16 July: Many days, there is a prediction of "scattered" or "isolated" thunderstorms for a few hours in the afternoon, with a twenty or thirty percent chance of rain. On these days, it is always nice and sunny, with a few big clouds that only rarely actually rain on you. Today, however, the prediction was just for "thunderstorms" all day, and I woke up to very cloudy skies. This is what it was like the day I ended up hitching a ride through North Dakota. Yuck. I turned on the news, and there was a severe storm warning in the direction I was heading, with sixty mph winds, so I stayed put. The kind and generous woman I'm staying with said it was fine if I stuck around, so I did. In the evening, we went and played some mini golf and had a fun time. We were going to go see the animatronic Paul Bunyan, but that place closed too early, and it's pretty far out of town, so I think I will miss it. Sorry, mom.

I'll leave tomorrow, I swear...