Monday July 16th was a 90 mile ride from Owatonna to Winona MN. The day did not start well as a group of us got turned around at breakfast and rode the wrong way out of town.Luckily we only added 2.5 miles to the day. Then because I was trying to catch the other group I did not see a chunk of wood and as a result I got my 6th flat tire of the trip. The rest of the day was uneventful except for the heat. We have been lucky so far but now the heat is catching up with us. It was 102 with 75% humidity as we rode into Winona and that is HOT!! The forecast is for more of the same with possible thundershowers so we are going to start riding at 5am instead of 6am to try and beat the heat. Tomorrow we cross the Mississippi River for the first time and go into Wisconsin our 7th state. We also passed the 2000 mile mark today so we are almost two-thirds of the way to DC.