July 20
Friday, July 20
Wisc Dells, WI to
Fond du Lac, WI
85.00 Miles
Left the motel at
6:30 and with three stops I arrived here in Fond du Lac before 2 PM. We
traveled highway 23 most of the way except for some detours on back country
roads where construction would have made it hard to go through.
I have to call today’s route Green Bean
Alley. It was pretty funny because the entire time we were on Hwy 23, I saw on
the shoulder every little ways a fresh garden picked green bean. They looked so
good, I wanted to start picking them up and eating them. I figured the 60 or so
miles I was on this road I would have quite a pan full. Of course all the other
cyclist saw this too and we had to laugh at dinner when, guess what our
vegetable was? Delicious green beans. Someone in the lead said a produce truck
passed them and it was leaking beans.
I felt great out
there today even with the temperature at 92 degrees at 11 AM. It was very humid
too, but what helped me is I went back to wearing my long sleeve Voler Team
Jersey. It keeps the beating sun off my arms and the great fabric of this jersey
wicks the perspiration away.
Mark, who rides a recumbent cycle, took a
fall just two blocks before getting into the hotel. He was looking down at this
map and struck a big pothole in the road and over he went. Ouch! He needed two
stitched near his elbow.
Talked
to my first cousin Rodger today. He lives a short distance from where we stay
tomorrow night. He said he will come late afternoon and we will go out for
dinner. Such fun to see these relatives along the way on my trek across
country.