It has been a week since our last hotel and in that week we entered the land of horseflies. All across Wisonsin and Minnesotta while riding we would find our selves surronded with a peloton of these pesky bugs. The incredible, and frustrating, part of all this is that the bugs can keep up with us as we are riding close to 20mph. A stiff head wind? Horseflies are there. They also tend to fly in front of you, and then dart back in to your body to find a place to land and nibble at you.
Its disconcerting to ride with that much bug activity in your field of vision, and even worse when the do land on you. I have to hang my head and say sometime I forgo conventional safety standards to take a good swat at one or two of them, often to no avail.
Then I get really frustrated and pull over to wage war.
And they are gone.
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