Wisconsin!

I am honored to serve as an invited guest blogger to provide some vignettes of The Odyssey's first two days in Wisconsin!

This is Kelly's cousin Edie, who enjoyed the company of our intrepid travelers for two evenings. I will serve as their Homer or their Bernard DeVoto for a tiny sliver of their epic journey.

On Wednesday, July 12, 2006, the Intrepid Ones traveled through the green hills and valleys of southwestern Wisconsin. Ask them for their thoughts on the relative difficulty of riding these hills compared to the Continental Divide. You may be in for a surprise!

Around 4 pm, they arrived at Otter Creek, a cabin by a stream in the woods.


We enjoyed some lovely summertime moments together, such as...

...sharing this picnic conjured up by the highly competent crew in just a few minutes...


...watching Uncle Mike do the dishes...


...setting forth to Madison, with Edie riding a few token miles just to be part of the epic.


In Madison, they greeted young and old alike with equal aplomb...





...and invoked the two-hour rule bright and early the next morning.


Onward!!!