La Crosse

Well the extra sleep didn't last for long. So Thursday night after an excellent day off in Madison of eating a lot and just relaxing some of us thought it would be an excellent idea to see Dark Knight, the new batman movie. While I completely agreed, the only downside was that it was opening Friday so that meant midnight showing! Oh lets not forget the next day we are supposed to have a long day like 104 miles, its supposed to be hilly, and its supposed to rain might even hail. So with all this in the mix of course we saw the movie and only got 2 hours of sleep to make it the next day. Let me say, IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT. That movie was great, absolutely phenomenal, kept you guessing and on edge the whole way through. The movie ended at around 3....am.... with a wake up call at 5:30 the next morning. But we made it! and yes we could have just waited until another night to see it but it made it so much better at midnight. The next day was grueling though despite the lack of sleep. Even the ones who didn't see the movie were struggling. The day turned out to be great; No rain, hot and sunny. So that made riding a lot easier. So the day was predicted to be 104 miles from Madison to Gays Mills. So around mile 20 everything is going great and we are cruising along. Normally the wind is in our face and its a struggle to get past 15, but for some reason that day i was just flying; flying meaning 20. Well it was still pretty early in the morning and i noticed something i don't usually see riding. It was the sun, we were heading straight into it. Being early with lack of sleep I didn't think much of it at the time, but then i realized that meant we were heading EAST in an east to west trip, something you really don't want to do. Well after about an hour of asking strangers and breaking out maps we turned around and headed west. The detour only added 14 miles to our trip but on a hundred mile trip 14 miles is an extra hour of riding on an long day to begin with. Well everyone on the trip took it well and rolled with it, literally. So we finally made it around 6:30 7:00 to the church jumped in the local pool and ate some delicious food provided graciously from the church and went straight to bed. We did nothing else.

So that brings me to today, only 63 miles or so on absolutely beautiful country side and perfect weather. Today was partly cloudy probably in the 80s and the roads were flat mostly all along the Mississippi. We were in 3 states, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota so that was cool. So I am off to visit my thermarest before dinner and then back to the thermarest.

Joke: Whats brown and Sticky?