Deeper into the heartland

If you think the jokes about the pilgrimage to Michigan by the SeatoSea bike tour are growing old… you’re only getting a few of them. There are new ones each hour of every day around here. Seems like everyone has the same sense of humour in that department. Friday we rode north from South Haven […]

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The promised land…. Michigan

We rode into Michigan today for the first time. With more than 60 cyclists from this state there are alot of people excited to be here. There was in fact a lineup at the “Welcome to Michigan” sign to have their picture taken. My camera is broken, perhaps temporarily perhaps permanently at the moment so […]

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Chicago!

I often say entries will be brief but this one will probably actually be that way. A beautiful send off this morning at Trinity put me in a great mood to get out there and ride, but also to keep up with the discussions etc. I don’t know how many people I spoke with but […]

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Yet another long day

I registered for all my courses for next year tonight on the computer while uploading a few videos. That means I’m going to cut the typing short and let the other evidence speak for itself. We rode a 60 km section along a bike path today on what I guess is towards the western edge […]

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Into Illinois

We rode again mostly through Wisconsin today, one thing I notied while on the road was that it seemed like the immigrants to this area made a more intentional effort of maintaining their bits and pieces of European herritage than was the case in most of the previous states. Often along the road there’d be […]

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The chase ends…

My derailleur hanger stopped chasing me across the country today. After missing me by about 8 hours in Sioux Center on Tuesday morning it hitched a ride with someone from town to Madison this morning who was attending the celebration service and finally landed in my hands. I’ve covered more than 2500 kms on my […]

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Sweet Sweet Saturday

Saturday are great We wake up and the kitchen staff always cooks us pancakes and bacon on Saturday mornings. They make sure we’re going to have a great day. The kitchen staff often cooks too much bacon and by the time we’re allowed to have a second go round at it all of the early […]

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A couple long days

Thursday morning arrived early as usual… actually the earliest day yet in my experience I agreed to wake up at 5:30 if you believe it. Steph was going to try riding the whole day and wanted an early start. So I crawled out of my tent and had it packed away by the time breakfast […]

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