Eyota, Dover, St. Charles, Utica Loop: 42.06 miles
Tandem Pedal Time: 3 hours 13 minutes, average speed 13.0
With the temperature still in the 40’s, we continue to ride. Our goal today was to pedal until we were too cold or tired, whichever came first. We headed west towards Eyota and then east towards Dover for lunch at the Roadtrip Roadhouse. It was very quiet in the bar—the usual crowd must have been resting up from the Halloween party held the night before. We claimed our usual parking spot and headed inside for a yummy bowl of hot soup.
St. Charles was next on our route and we stopped at Sister Kathy’s to visit with the crew working outside on her shed. After picking up some ballast, a heavy link chain Dennis wanted, we continued towards Utica. The Utica gang was gathered outside enjoying a game of bean bag toss; all waved as we passed by.
We could tell our biking season was nearing an end with the appearance of snowmobile signs showing up in the bare farm fields. Soon we will be restricted to only weekend miles but we are getting so close to our goal of 3000 miles and will be very happy with that for this 2012 biking season.
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