I hate computers I am trying this again. I am still on July 23rd. We got to stay at another college dorm Winona State College. Before dinner we walked downtown to see the Great Mississippi River. Tomorrow only 69!


Winona- Viroqua 66 miles July 24th. this is a big day for us we have ridden 2,000 miles. Its still hard to comprehend how far we have come and we are starting to wind down. We followed the Mississippi river for a long ways. We saw the largest 6 pack of beer when we entered Wisconsin. OK They have some hills here. Thinking again only 66 miles piece of cake. Well there are hills and there are hills. the first big one we encountered we couldn't get into granny gear. SO we snaked our way back and forth slowly up the hill. We are now in the area of Amish farms. We saw the black carriages. It was so pretty.


Viroqua- Madison 100 miles July 25th. This is the day for Dan's family and Bob's family to come. The first 50miles are beautiful farms, rolling hills which are a blast on a tandem, and some steep hills. The beauty of the terraced corn fields was spectacular. It is so hard to describe just the gift of seeing this area. I was wishing Dad and Warren were here to see it. The last 50 or so miles were kind of a grind. My arms are aching and butt is aching and no relief. The reward at the end was the 2 families cooked WI braats and beer and salad and fruit and ice cream. It was so yummy and so appreciated. News on Mom not good but she sounds great on the phone. Love You.


Madison -Belvidere 82 miles Day 32 July 26th.


We had promised ourselves one think we would do is sample pancakes across America. Well this is the first time we actually stopped and had them. They were soo good. Rolling hills and small towns and back roads of rows of corn and sow are the central theme. The farms are so clean and orderly . Did I say corn? Well after all the corn we have seen do you think we have had any. No. You can smell them and oh how I want some. We were rained on some and heard thunder but a very long distance away thankfully. We are tired now 5 days down and 2 to go. Tomorrow we get to see Evan I can hardly stand it. We got to sleep under open patio with a roof. Yippee.


Belvidere - Coal City 103 July 27th Day 33 Evan's Day


Today was so poignant for a lot of reasons. We are honored to wear Brack's and Jean Annie's cycling jersey so he is close to us in spirit and body. I wore his hat backwards because I couldn't use my mirror if it was on straight. We left about 6:30am wanting to get in about 2:30 in time to see Evan. The skies looked ominous 40% chance of rain . At 7;30am the skies opened up and wow did we get wet. It was raining sideways. We both took our glasses off because they were useless.