I continued my study in corn hybrid advertising today. We started at the Mississippi, climbed, and then rolled and climbed through farmland. I'm quite interested in the signs advertising the corn variety planted behind. Almost all example acres were incredibly healthy looking. I did notice one that looked all uneven and bad. I forget which. I didn't count, but I think I saw representatives from 6 to 8 different companies. The corn did look quite different from ...

A melancholy day in my head. Rather pretty along the Mississippi- but scary narrow highway with no shoulder at the start and end of the ride. Quite a bit of hills, which was nice. We crunched over mayflies on a bridge leaving la crosse... Back to Minnesota, and finally into Iowa. I got a pop and a smoked sausage just across the border, and drank the soda while I rode. I kept the smoked sausage in my pocket and nibbled on it all day. A bit of it remains on my m...

We finally made it to Wisconsin! La crosse is a very cute town. Karina and I had a nice walk and checked out the river and downtown. The morning stArted out at a good clip- I ride with karina for about an hour and a half. Then stopped to take a pic, and look at another geological marker. Caught up with sue and Ellen- my pals the rest of the day. Hello Wisconsin! Then we decided to try the dirt road:trail. Mary joined us as we escaped the crowded sag stop- dre...

The most beautiful day so far! I took tons of pictures- only some are posted here. I started the day with a tight chest- and the morning was emotional. I never figured out whether my body was reflecting some inner conflict working itself out- or whether j had an emotional day b/c my body was working into a new level of fitness...probably some of both. What I do know is that we teased Wisconsin again, but ended up in minnesota this evening. The farmland was pic...

Well, our first century!!! It was pretty much the easiest one I've ever done. We had nearly brand new pavement almost the whole time, a slight tailwind, lovely temperature, and it was flat for 75 miles, then rolling for 20 more, only the last 10 or so had some tough hills ( probably tough only because they were after 95 miles) The best part of the day was the WHOLE thing...riding with Ellen and Mary. They are great riding buddies :) we averaged 15.9 miles/HR o...