update

What a long couple of days. Believe it or not i am in Wisconsin (dont ask me how it happened). We just keep on riding and the hours and miles just keep rolling by. The scenery has remained about the same since we left the Adirondacks, except we haven't gotten much rain! Though from what I hear on the streets this coming week will be HOT and HUMID something that does not work well for 6 hour bike rides.

Anyway, the rides have been pretty standard since Camden, MI. Though we are very disappointed these Midwest States HAVE NO WELCOME signs. We passed though Indiana, Illinois and now Wisconsin without seeing a single road sign welcoming us. Our rides have been mixed with some of the smoothest, most scenic, to streets that were paved with a dump-truck then run over by a pothole machine then torn up by IRON MAN himself. Oh not to mention big-rigs and over-sized loads and even tractors pushing us off the road. But other than a few terrible roads the rides have been quite nice. Going into Chicago was pretty incredible. We started in Edwardsberg, MI, at around 6:30 am. Well it started raining around 7am leaving us all wet and miserable. then at about mile 25 we hit a dirt road, meaning we went on a detour which lead us about 2 miles further than normal (but we apparently saved our tires from about a mile of loose gravel and dirt) After asking about 10 people how to get back on track and finally doing so it started to rain again. At mile 40 we had our first lunch stop. Yup first lunch stop. then it cleared up and was nice for the rest of the day thankfully. So we just kept riding past Indiana Dunes State Park. We saw about 30 signs for that, yet they cant seem to put up one state sign. At mile 80 we had our second lunch stop. Right before hand poor Pen accidental got on the Interstate and had a police officer drive him back to the entrance...with his bike bungeed to the back. At around mile 100 we finally saw the city's skyline and as it so happened there was a very nice bike path for us to use. I was quite proud of myself...my first century ride after only a couple of weeks of riding. So I was psyched however i didn't realize we still had 20 more miles to tack on. But the rest of the ride was cool because it was right on the lakefront and was a nicely paved bike path completely separate from the cars and we had to weave through other cyclists and pedestrians.

We finally made it to the church after 8 hours and 45 min of riding time (thats time actually on the bike moving...yeah i know kinda ridiculous its amazing i even wanted to touch that bike again). Thankfully we had the next day off in Chicago, so we all went out on the town. The Next day was fun as well but i will spare you of the details until a later posting. Make sure you remind me.

We finished off our night in Chicago with a delicious deep dish pizza all i have to say is yumm.

So tonight we are staying in Janesville and enjoying some good hospitality as always and a huge veggie platter.

Joke: (Still nothing)
Riddle: (Fresh out...need more)

I will update again when i can. Thanks again for reading this ridiculously long blog entry hope you are enjoying it.

Erik