Save 22 A Day Trans-America Cycling

The link to today's route and statistics is found here . In the American west bicyclists are allowed to ride the interstate shoulders in an area where the interstate is the only way to ride from point A to point B.  It sounds scary to ride the interstate because of the speed of vehicles there.  However, since the interstate shoulder is very wide and usually divided from traffic by a rumble trip, riding on the shoulder of the interstate often feels safer than riding on a highway with a narrow shoulder.  Trucks get much closer to the rider on a smaller highway, and they are still driving at a lethal speed indeed.  With that as a background, today's ride began with a high pucker factor ride down Interstate-8.   Even early in the morning the wind was above a 20 mph steady value with gusts estimated as high as 50 mph by Randy from Oklahoma, who is used to riding in 30 mph wind across the prairie.  To make matters worse, the wind was primarily a crosswind that was in places