We recieved this email from Ryan on Tuesday:

 

        I'm staying in Nickerson today, apparently there's an older couple who hosts bikers here, and I still need to figure out my route better. I spent an hour and 20 minutes trying to save some possum babies whose mother had been hit. I did move a turtle off the road earlier. Today wasn't rainy, but yesterday I biked 20 miles through a thunderstorm where it was just pouring. But I got a ride a couple miles ahead to a small town where I could stay at the city park (which is good, because it would mean biking another forty miles in the rain, lightning and the dark, and I was still 90-100 miles from where I thought I would stay that night).