Rain.
Stuck in Spring Green. I’m glad that WI is getting rain, but I kinda wish that our tour landed during the dry time of the summer. Looks like there is a chance of rain for the next 10 days…
Read More Rain.Category: Bicycle Touring
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Hills. Hills. Hills. Ever since I began my life as a “serious” biker (a road biker), hills have always put fear into my heart. On group rides, I often get dropped on hills and on solo rides, I jump immediately into my small ring. I would rather be surprised by a hill and not see […]
Read More Anti-Polka Dot JerseyHot Monday
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 MondayOn the road… or trail… again.
Last 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.Test Ride
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 RideState Park #1
It 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 #1Here We Go Again!
The 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!