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I’m typing this from beautiful site #223 at Governor Dodge State Park. We have our half of the campground to ourselves, except for one lonely raccoon in the middle of the night who looked longingly at our bags of food dangling, tantalizing him, suspended off the ground from a tree. We didn’t make it to […]
Read More Hot MondayLast night Liz and I joined the celebration of the end of one trip of our Norwegian friends, and prepared for the beginning of our own this morning. Unfortunately for us, often the things one does at the end of a trip (drink, stay up late, etc) are not the things one does at the […]
Read More On the road… or trail… again.We loaded up the bikes today and took them on a very, very, very short test ride (~2 miles). Liz is dealing with front bags for the first time and Ben has a little “shimmy” in the front due to uneven bag weights, but overall it went pretty well (knocking on wood…).
Read More Test RideIt looks like Governor Dodge State Park will be our first destination for the “Bliz State Park Bike Tour 2012.” We hope to arrive early on Sunday in order to explore the park and maybe take a dip in one of these…
Read More State Park #1The bikers will be staying a bit closer to home this summer and they will actually be on bikes! We purchased a few Amtrak tickets to the Twin Cities last week. We will leave from Milwaukee on July 24th with our touring bikes in boxes and Ben will put them together in Minneapolis (in a […]
Read More Here We Go Again!Like we need another thing to do before the trip, right? One of the legs of the annual Tour of America’s Dairyland (ToaD) bike racing tour is taking place in Sheboygan today and Ben and I are volunteering to watch a race corner for a few hours. We have been doing this for the past […]
Read More Off to the (Bike) Races!Heading out on vacation is great, but it’s bittersweet because at this time I’m in the best cycling shape I’ve been in over the past two years. I’d love to spend a lot of time riding this: Ben’s New Ride but instead we’ll have to settle for this: and this: and probably this: This is […]
Read More The good kind of problem