by timshazz | Apr 18, 2019 | Cycling in North America
St. Cloud to Melrose, Minnesota: (60kms) At breakfast, Rae Ann made us some coffee and Custass asked if he could spend another night there as he wanted to watch a soccer game. We got ready and said goodbye, Eric was taking Rae Ann and Nathan to a theme park for the...
by timshazz | Apr 17, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Woodbury to Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota: (22kms) Having spent some time last night, we put our faith in Google Maps once more to guide us from Woodbury, through the busy Minneapolis/St.Paul urban sprawl using another series of bikepaths and smaller roads....
by timshazz | Apr 17, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Lake City, Minnesota to Prescott, Wisconsin: (69kms) The highway remained flat as we made our way north out of Lake City. We passed Hok Si La Park Campground and got to the village of Frontenac were we saw Robert’s bike parked out front with some other road...
by timshazz | Apr 17, 2019 | Cycling in North America
McGregor, Iowa to Stoddard, Wisconsin: (85kms) This morning we left McGregor and crossed the mighty Mississippi for the second time, stopping at the Visitor’s Centre in Prairie Du Chien on the other side. We are now in Wisconsin and still headed north. We...
by timshazz | Apr 16, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Cascade to Dyersville: (34kms) Our route today had been in some contention for quite a while now, over a year in fact! I had read a blog while researching our route saying Farley Road (heading north from Cascade) had roadworks and there was no bitumen for most of it....
by timshazz | Apr 16, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Muscatine to Lowden: (61kms) We got cracking early and followed Park Road up and out of Muscatine and onto the busy 38. We passed a family of dead racoons on the road, a mother and 3 babies. Racoons don’t seem to be as street savvy as a lot of other animals we...
