On to Wisconsin!

We start our day at the Chat-N-Chew Restaurant in Lanesboro, Minnesota.

We started our day at the Chat-N-Chew Restaurant. Surrounded by farmers, who did more chatting than chewing, we learned about putting up hay, building barns and harvesting corn. It was a great place for the men folk to catch up on the town doings before they went to work.

At 7:50 a.m. I jumped back on the Root River State Trail. I had 30 miles to ride to Houston. It was overcast and spitting when I started cycling, but I was protected by a canopy of trees. I pedaled on a wooden bridge, which transported me over the confluence of the Root River and the South Branch Root River. Leaves were falling from the trees and many parts of the trail were covered with them.

At mile 4, I arrived in the town of Whalan. There was activity as people geared up for work. Each town along the trail provided sites of interest and many services to trail users. Everything from campgrounds, bed and breakfast inns, restaurants, museums, outfitters, and unique stores, were found in many of the trail towns.

The trail wound through soybean and cornfields. Lazy Susan flowers brightened everything they surrounded. The sun finally broke through the clouds and scattered light through the trees. I heard the loud waters of the Root River as it rushed by.  

When I arrived in Houston, my ride on the Root River Trail ended. I headed on SR 16 toward the town of Hokah. The road was under construction and just newly paved. For the next twelve miles I sailed on a smooth, wide road up hills and through farmland.  

I cycled down into Hokah and then to La Crescent, Minnesota. I crossed the Mighty Mississippi River and entered my seventh state Wisconsin. We rode into La Crosse to Bikes Limited where Josh adjusted my derailleur free of charge. We finally ended up at our campsite on the banks of the Mississippi River.  

God Bless,

Kathy

1 Samuel 16:7

Beautiful Lazy Susan flowers line the trail.

Bicycle art on the Root River Trail in Houston.

Our campsite along the Mississippi River in Wisconsin.

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