Day 34 - Wisconsin Dells to Fond du Lac - We're "Walkin' on Sunshine, and Don't It Feel Good!"

Today was the opposite of yesterday.  Cooler temperatures, lovely roads, favorable winds, and only 84 miles!  The day started with gathering for breakfast at various Denny's and meeting up with other riders while upon the road.

Greg, dressed in his Oregon Duck best, was a cheerful face along the road.  Wisconsin proved itself again to be bicycle friendly, with our paths taken through farmlands and small towns.

Our first SAG stop, in the town of Montello, WI, provided us with this backdrop as we made our way over to the Kwik Trip in search of our new energy drink, chocolate milk.  How nice is this?

We were amazed at all the fields of sweet corn, the kind one eats, not the kind grown to produce Ethanol.  There were roadside stands selling huge bags of it, and we bikers wondered how we could prepare the corn in order to eat it.  Our hotel rooms often include a refrigerator and a microwave. After pondering ways to microwave and serve the corn in our rooms, we found that fellow rider Mitch, from Plano, TX, stuffed a few ears in his bike jersey pockets and microwaved them for 3 minutes to his delight.  We hope to duplicate this soon!

After dinner tonight was the one-time-only T-shirt exchange.  Whether it was a T from Cranky Jeff's bike shop in South Dakota or Lucky Labrador Brew Pub in Portland, all shirts where given statements of their worth and placed on the exchange floor.  Numbers were drawn, and just like a Christmas ornament exchange, t-shirts could be chosen from the floor or stolen from another participant.  Greg's Lucky Lab shirt was one of the big winners of the evening.  A good time was had by all.

Tomorrow - A short day out of Fond du Lac to the base of the Ferry Ride across Lake Michigan.  We get to sleep in a bit as we will not be loading until 8:30 am--yeah!