Nothing different to start another day…wake up, clean up, pack up, eat up, load up (the truck), saddle up and ride out. We continue to ride Route 14 east which we’ve done for the last three and a half days. This ribbon of asphalt is yet another connection to home because it runs through my hometown of Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Based on the map, I anticipate riding 14 for at least another day or two.
Some of the riders have turned the Big Ride into the BRTDQ (Big Ride Tour of Dairy Queens). It seems that every sizeable town has its own DQ and riders cannot pass by with out stopping in. I have fallen prey to the temptation several times; my personal weakness is a root beer float!
Again towns fly by: Florence (pop. 61), Balaton, Tracy (named after one of our riders?), Walnut Grove (childhood home of Laura Engels Wilder), Revere, Lamberton, Springfield, Cobden (pop. 61), Sleepy Eye (How’d it get that name?) and finally New Ulm.
We are staying at Martin Luther College and pranks continue…Stephanie’s bike found its way to the top of vending machines.
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