Tri-State Ride Day #2

Day 2—Potosi, WI to Galena, IL: 39.56 miles
Comments: Ride Time was 3 hours 36 minutes, average speed: 10.9

Oh, the hills! We started the day off great with a breakfast cooked by the Potosi Elementary School cooks. They served us a very delicious egg bake, oatmeal, fruit, French toast, bagels, cookies, juice… all for the low price of $8 per rider. That meal really got our motors running—they must have known what kind of riding day we were in for. We left Potosi around 7:00 a.m. under cloudy skies and with a temperature in the low 70’s.

Our first rest stop along the route was at Dickyville, WI at the Holy Ghost Grotto. We spent some time here with other riders enjoying the beauty of the Grotto and taking many pictures.

This was a shorter mile day but the hills kept the route challenging. We pedaled into Galena around Noon and surprised the tour crew with our early arrival. We found our tent at the City of Galena Water Park and helped ourselves to towels and the showers. We were now ready to check out the historic town of Galena. We stopped at Benjamin’s for lunch where I had an excellent fish sandwich. We then went on a 6-mile walk around the town and back to camp where we ordered pizza from Cannova’s to be delivered to our tent on the hill. Tom from La Crosse has been spending the week with our group as his wife, Jenny bikes the routes. I noticed he had a guitar and asked if he would play for us. After our pizza, a group gathered for an old fashioned sing-a-long. The evening was perfect and to end it all, we were blessed with the viewing of a brilliant rainbow across the sky.