Before, during, and hopefully after account of a Great Divide Route journey in the summer of 2010.

Monday, May 31, 2010

We're not in the Shire anymore, Frodo!



Yikes.  I can't believe that we made it home after such a crazy ride this Memorial Day Weekend.  We biked in two parts to Edgerton, WI from West Allis on Friday evening and Saturday morning, and then today, we rode 72 miles back in almost six hours.  Here's the map of the 125+ mile route that we took:



Friday evening, we biked through Waukesha and Wales to Ottawa Lake Campground at South Kettle Moraine State Forest.  We were going to stealth camp somewhere in the forest, but tried to see what bikers can get on a last minute basis.  Surprisingly, they save the crappiest campsites (the sites that are right at the entrance, closest to the garbage area) for bikers like us.  It turned out to be just fine for not having any reservations on Friday night of Memorial Day Weekend.

Saturday, we woke up and were on the road again by 8:30 AM, stopped LaGrange General Store for a delicious turkey sandwich, and rolled into my aunt's house just after noon. I couldn't even play a game of Scrabble that night with my cousins and aunt--that's how exhausted I was.  I went to bed at 8:30 that night.

Sunday was a great rest day, and a good thing, too, because our ride on Monday was epic.  We took a different route that consisted mostly of bike paths: Edgerton to Fort Atkinson, Glacial Drumlin trail into Waukesha, and the New Berlin bike path home.

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