2000 Miles

Red Wing to Winona – 69 miles
Average speed – 11.1

Our Pleasant Dinner Last Night

We stayed at the Parkway Motel and had to use the lobby to get a wi-fi connection. The smell of curry wafted from the owner’s residence, connected to the office. We mentioned how wonderful the food smelled and he asked us if we liked Indian food. When we thought about it, we realized that we have seen very few Indian restaurants in our travels so far. We did our online stuff and a few minutes later, the owner came out with two dishes of vegetable biryani.
What a great treat it was.

Meeting other tourists

Robert, Dave and Bill

Had we not started out late today, we would have missed meeting Dave and Bill who are bicycling long distance to bring attention to global climate issues. Although I had been in touch with Bill long ago with some route suggestions for getting to Toledo, I didn’t know what their itinerary was. So imagine our surprise when the first long distance tourists that we have met turn out to be Dave and Bill. They gave a presentation at MVCDS where Robert taught for 26 years. They remarked that they had not seen any touring cyclists since the C&O Trail. We had expected to see others as well and guessed that we would meet somewhere in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Guess that this counts. I am sure that they had a nice ride into Minnesota with the wonderful tail wind today.

2000 miles

Just outside of beautiful Weaver, which didn’t have the cold refeshments that we had anticipated, we hit the 2000 mile mark. The ride today was very scenic and reminded us of the headlands of the East Cape of New Zealand, the fjords of Norway and the heat of Mexico.

Lake Pepin – do not confuse with Jacques Pepin
The temperature hit 90 again and it seems that the winds were also about 90 mph out of the southeast. Gosh, we were heading directly southeast.

Finally in Winona
Today is our last in Minnesota. We cross into Wisconsin tomorrow. The Steamboat Festival is going on here in Winona. Hopefully, we will see some of that when we leave as our accommodations are not convenient to the riverfront and I have no desire to either walk or ride a few miles into town today.