Today we had a ride to Dubuque Iowa, which is our last city in the state. I was excited for the ride because I had originally thought we were going to go over the mighty Mississippi river. However I learned that event would be occurring the next day. The ride was pretty eventful, but dangerous some of the roads were terrible. There were also some tough hills, and we haven’t encountered hills such as these since Colorado, but we also haven’t had many big downhills either. Our lodging was at a local camp outside Dubuque.
Once we ate and got showered we actually went to where most of the movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed. It was pretty cool. It hadn’t changed much since the movie and we got to play baseball on the field. There weren’t many restrictions to where we could go in the area.
We had a great friendship visit and dance for a few hours later that night and got any early nights sleep for tomorrow’s 110 miler.
The ride to Illinois was tiring but fun. There was some confusion on how to cross the bridge to get over the Mississippi river. Once we did we encountered some big rolling hills and some dangerous traffic. Once we got to mile 65 which is where we had lunch and finished our meal we learned that everyone was going to be racked for the day. Apparently the road we were on had a minimum of a 45 speed limit, and it was too dangerous for us to ride on the road. I thought we might be able to keep it at a 45mph pace, but that’s me. We had an arrival at a local Saturn Dealership. We head for Wisconsin tomorrow.
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