Another beautiful day in Wisconsin. OK, there was a bit of headwind all day and mosquitoes were still out, but still beautiful. One interesting thing that happened was I stopped at a diner for a bit of lunch and there was an Eric Hovde campaign event at the same time. He is running as the Republican challenger against Tammy Baldwin, in the Wisconsin Senate race. I ended up having a good long conversation with the gentleman next to me who was up from Madison to visit a friend. We ended up exchanging information and we will probably get together at some point as he’s considering Boston University for graduate work in sociology.

Near the end of the ride, there was about 25 miles of nice bike trail, and there were a lot of people out using it. On the road, there are more and more tiny little sharp hills now with grades up to 10 and 11%. I can’t imagine going up some of these with 50 pound load out it seems a lot of people are carrying.

OK, I think I’m gonna go out for a swim. I hope the mosquitoes don’t find me.