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A late summer’s rest / is what we love best / to celebrate our anniversaryOn our favorite lake / at the tip of our state / hail to Nature: our sole adversary “Get the gear!” is our mantra / or is it more of a tantra / maybe not, but there’s no other rhymeNow that’s […]
Read More Get the GearYesterday we made it home, after a beautiful 60 mile day that was through mostly familiar terrain. We found ourselves (by no accident) winding around small rivers and (maybe a bit by accident, but more be necessity) climbing across a series of rather steep moraines that punctuate eastern Dodge and western Sheboygan County. Cities visited […]
Read More “…and I would [bike 480] miles…”Just a recap, for those keeping track: as of Thursday morning we had 375 miles in over 7 days of riding (two rest days). We’ll take it.Bright and early at the crack of 10am, we headed out from the cottage in Cambridge, WI and began winding our way back into the Kettles and to our […]
Read More Back on TopWednesday: we biked from the Jesse family homestead (Madison) to the Jesse family vacation cottage in Cambridge. They’re kind of a big deal that way. We headed south out of town on the Badger State Trail, and as soon as the pavement turned to crushed limestone we abandoned the trail and headed east towards Stoughton […]
Read More Holder of PlacesWith Monday being a rest day with external transportation due to rain and other issues, Tuesday was our first day on bikes since our relatively easy day on Saturday. This day would be a repeat, in many ways, of a similar day we had on last year’s trip. This picture might be familiar, but of […]
Read More A Return to FormOur bodies and minds took a much needed break yesterday and today at beautiful Knapp’s Creek. George and Lianne are in the process of building a house on a beautiful piece of property along a creek that flows to the WI River. We spent a few days hammering nails, laughing, eating, drinking and taking COLD […]
Read More Resting the Legs and Healing the Saddle SoresYesterday we made an epic trek across southwestern Wisconsin. We clocked in at 14 hill/valley traversals — and I’m not just talking about small or medium hills, but genuine granny-gear, can’t see the top of them, soul-crushing hills. The valleys are the ones that you get lost in, entering some sort of an uncharted land […]
Read More Highlands to LowlandsA short post today, as we’re packing up this morning (Friday) and heading out as we speak. We left Whitewater Lake bright and early, as fast as possible, and had breakfast down at a beach rather than at our mosquito-laden campsite. Once we got moving, we found ourselves heading west for, oh, about 45 miles, […]
Read More Driftless Zone, we had missed you…?