Day Fifty-four: 7/17/08

It's late, so I have to make this quick.

I was finally able to update the Flickr stream this evening. There aren't many pictures added to the Minnesota set. I kept the camera in my pocket most of the time in Minneapolis. I mean, who typically walks around and takes pictures of a town he/she already knows well?

We should be on the ferry across Lake Michigan and out of Wisconsin by the end of tomorrow. We've been making our way southeast from the north woods near the Michigan UP border. As with many sections of our trip, we've taken the much longer scenic route. We'll likely ride around 500 miles through Wisconsin when all is said and done, which is far more than we needed to ride. I am, however, very glad that we detoured north. The woods are exceptionally lush and the hills made for some interesting riding.

Once we get into Michigan we'll be making a fairly straightforward shot to NYC. I'm still trying to figure out the route from Buffalo to NYC....

It rained on us all afternoon. Shockingly, this was the first rain we had ridden in since Santiam Pass in western Oregon. Regardless, rain is not much fun to ride in, particularly once it soaks one's shoes, as it did to mine today.

But there's always tomorrow, and with it the hope of no more rain....