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 […]

Wednesday: 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 […]

Our 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 […]

Yesterday 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 […]

A 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, […]

Thundertent — two bikers enter and…. two stay in. At least for awhile. We’re holed up in our tent at our campsite at Whitewater Lake State Forest. This is day two of our trip, and we’ve been lax in our blogging because we’ve been pressed for time due to, well, everything. We just arrived here […]