Penultimate day

Today was the penultimate day of riding

We left about 9:30 from the hotel to ride to a town named after New Glarus. We started out riding the pathes that work their way through Madison

As we approached a school zone or zones, you would have thought we were in Amsterdam.

There were people on scooters rollerblades bikes and walking.

There were paths going every which way.

I found it refreshing to see the lack of cars approaching the school zone.

We then started riding rural paths for most of the rest of the morning 3.5 hours of riding without vehicles except when we crossed a road. Then they almost always stopped for us. A huge semi saw us coming from a hundred yards away, stopped until we all had passed

Everyone was completely impressed how courteous the drivers are

We cross numerous bridges each day from 10 feet to over 60 feet. Every one of them has one thing in common. Check out this bridge.

See the black stripe on the deck? what causes that?

Snow mobiles in the winter

Here is our trusty van and trailer

Here is where we ended our day in New Glarus

After the ride I took a walk to the state capital

After I walked down State St to a great card shop that had this in the window

Have a nice evening

Paul