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I love following your travels and especially your written comments. We have a big interesting country and you are taking advantage of seeing lots of it.
4 years agoOOPS disregard my prueyvious comment!
4 years agoThe P C term for "swamp" is now wetlands!
4 years agoYou're very observant! I didn't even notice that.
4 years agoI'm kind of surprised that you didn't give an honorable mention to what looks like the top of a silo providing shade for the park bench...
4 years agoLooks scary
4 years agoCool profile!
4 years agoNice going guys! It's been great following your progress, with no major mishaps. You are about 60 miles from my father's small farming hometown of Lake wilson. Will check on your local Cycleblaze buddies. Hope you get up to my mother's home area of Duluth, although she was born by the Canadian border in Baudette while they were homesteading.
4 years agoFor many years, any mechanical problem and the 1 bike accident I had (foolishly passing a stopped trash truck on a downhill stretch without yelling out and having the trash guy slide the can across the street and knock me off the bike...) all happened roughly mid-ride. I've gotten better about preventive maintenance (and trash truck passing), so lowered the probability a bit.
Un-predicted rain still seems to wait for mid-ride. Last year on a 61 mile group ride (with no rain predicted and no green blobs on the radar nearby at start) it started to rain 20 miles in. A check of the radar on my phone showed a small green blob that appeared to just be crossing my route, so I started up again. Apparently, the blob decided to follow the same route, so I was in a deluge for the next 30 miles. I kept thinking it would stop any minute now - for two hours I thought that.
The rest of the group was spread out ahead of me and behind me - turns out they were smarter and switched to the 40 mile route and escaped much of the rain and were back 90 minutes ahead of me sitting at outdoor tables in the sunshine at the brewery where we started...
I thought it looked familiar :)
4 years agoThanks, Dave. We're trying to be safe in every way. We're sad that it doesn't look as if we'll be able to visit Canada this year.
4 years agoYou made me go to the map for that one - I was surprised!
4 years agoOur room was downstairs. We didn't go up to check it out.
4 years agoIt was certainly convenient - no worries about how to get the bike in!
4 years ago
Hope you had some corn for din din....
4 years ago