Looks like the day is only about 6 hours ‘light’ in Stadur, Iceland where I presently stayed the virtuual night last night along the Ring Road Challenge. I am 110 miles along the road; at 13% of the journey.

-2°C (28°F)

Northeast 14 (m/s)

Wed Jan 27th, 12:00pm

Sunrise: 10:34:19 AM Sunset: 4:50:17 PM

Stadur, was once a church and parso­nage, with a wooden church that was built 1864. one of the first churches­ in Iceland to be painted, not tarred, it is decorated with wooden carvings. The land surrounding Stadur is fertile, and the area is home to colonies of eider ducks.

Eider ducks are the largest duck, live in rocky areas along cold water oceans and are known for the warmth of their down. The practice of killing the ducks for their down has largely reformed to eider duck farming, where the down can be collected without killing the ducks.

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My real ride was partly on Round Mountain gravel roads, and then quick loop at DuPont, where I wish I would have snapped a photo of the beautiful sunset. Learn! And a meme craze featuring Bernie, with his now famous Vermont-made mittens is rocking online, so I put him at a trail head at Dupont. One problem: he forgot his bike!!!