As he map promised at 7:45 I began a wing ding of a climb. I’m about a half hour into it when the navigation app says “Take Boomer Bend Rd” as I look to the highway I see nothing but asphalt climbing like a wall. Ohh is this a new route going around the hill …
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I woke up in the middle of the night to the lullaby of quiet fog horns. A feeling of being cared for came over me. I wonder if the first ones I heard were when I was born in San Francisco. People built them to help each other out because they understood that groups, working …
I drove up to Newport, Oregon, where I left off last year. I stayed at The Rodeway Inn again because the manager had been so generous and kind when I had a reservation problem. He was just as kind and generous this time. Too bad he wasn’t in control of the weather . It poured …
Today we had a day off before flying home tomorrow. We decided to go to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Having been told y some of the bike group about the fantastic architecture I’ll let the pictures speak. The architects are EeroSaaripen , David Kahler, and Santiago caladrava There was an excellent video as an introduction …
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We started the day with a shuttle to the start of the glacial Drummond Trail.. One needs breakfast first, so there was a bakery cafe at the trail head, that served big portions of very good food. So much that the waitress asked if someone didn’t like their food because of what was left on …
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 …
Our day started with a quick tour in the van of the Epic campus outside of Madison The CEO , Judith Faulkner has created a huge campus with an unbelievable array of renewable energy generating systems. The various areas of the campus are themed from various stories, Star Wars, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz …
This morning, after a delicious breakfast, we took a half hour shuttle to the start of the Elroy Sparta Trail. This is “The Mothership of rail trails. It is the first rail to trail conversion in the US in 1967. It is a beautiful trail. From here the concept spread throughout the US. This is …
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In the afternoon I was riding at the back of the group. One of the guides always rides “sweep”. To make sure no one is left behind. We’re talking and I ask where she is from. She says Paducah Kentucky. I mention that I was just riding on a trip with a guy from Paducah …
We started the day with a 3 1/2 hour shuttle to Trempealeau, Wisconsin on the shore of the Mississippi River. We have seen so many of these perpetually attractive little towns. This is about 351 miles south of the Origin of the Mississippi in Lake Itasca The far shore is Minnesota We headed south primarily …
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