End: Milaca, Minnesota
Mileage: 80 miles or 110 miles? Two different reports
Weather: Mid-80's
States Conquered: Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota
States Being Conquered: Minnesota
States to be Conquered: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
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Particulars: A report from Kelly Thompson: A beautiful 110 mile day from Parker Prairie Minn to Milaca Minn. Milaca is like the set from American Graffiti with high school driving their parents cars around the downtown park where Joe and I are tenting on this warm summer night.Milaca is a classic N. Minn small town. The water towers are the defining characteristic of most of the small towns here. Many of the towns also have at least one Vetrans Memorial and many signs supporting the local high school teams.
The wind shifted South today and heat was up to 85degrees. 80 miles seemed longer than it should.
Yesterday we crossed the place where the rivers run East to the Mississippi vs North to Hudson Bay. Today, between Parker Prairie and Pillsbury Minn - the non farmed land changed from native grass to deciduous forrest.
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I kept looking for Robin Hood and Little John to pop out and collect a poll tax for the poor. Bikes and riders running strong. We staked down the tents so that the mosquitoes did not carry them away.
We think this is near the half way point of the trip. Wahoo!
A report from Joe Thompson: Today we rode 110 MI from Parker's Prairie MN to Milaca MN. We had good luck with weather in that we did not get rained on and the wind was not too heavy and mostly crossing or following. Mike, Kelly and I will see Lowell Tuesday night upon his return from Annette's mom's funeral. Annette plans to stay for a week, so we will continue to be unsupported for that amount of time. Kelly and I are camping in the Milaca park tonight, and meeting Mike for espresso near his motel in the AM.
Yesterday we crossed from the Hudson's Bay drainage to the Mississippi drainage. About that point the land changed pretty dramatically, by going from many closely spaced lakes with resorts mixed with small farms to rolling countryside with no apparent lakes but some rivers and great big farms mixed with a pretty impressive deciduous forrest. Both Parker's Prairie and Milaca seem like healthy small town USA, this as opposed to the dead or dying small towns we saw in MT and ND outside of the oil and gas country.
Interesting People Along the Way:
Yesterday we crossed the place where the rivers run East to the Mississippi vs North to Hudson Bay. Today, between Parker Prairie and Pillsbury Minn - the non farmed land changed from native grass to deciduous forrest.
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We think this is near the half way point of the trip. Wahoo!
A report from Joe Thompson: Today we rode 110 MI from Parker's Prairie MN to Milaca MN. We had good luck with weather in that we did not get rained on and the wind was not too heavy and mostly crossing or following. Mike, Kelly and I will see Lowell Tuesday night upon his return from Annette's mom's funeral. Annette plans to stay for a week, so we will continue to be unsupported for that amount of time. Kelly and I are camping in the Milaca park tonight, and meeting Mike for espresso near his motel in the AM.
Yesterday we crossed from the Hudson's Bay drainage to the Mississippi drainage. About that point the land changed pretty dramatically, by going from many closely spaced lakes with resorts mixed with small farms to rolling countryside with no apparent lakes but some rivers and great big farms mixed with a pretty impressive deciduous forrest. Both Parker's Prairie and Milaca seem like healthy small town USA, this as opposed to the dead or dying small towns we saw in MT and ND outside of the oil and gas country.
Interesting People Along the Way:
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