The highway seems to run wherever it wants. I haven't had a hill workout like this one in quite sometime. Some long downhill runs perfectly suited for a recumbent. The winds today are excellent. Give me hills over a headwind any day.
Hills end in minutes.
Headwinds last all day. I begin looking for lodging after riding 80 miles. The towns along the way are tiny. My favorite was Stockholm, population 85. Every one of them is a dot on the map no matter how big it is.