Day 68 - 69

Written by Donald
We started out the morning wearily from falls creek grabbing a classy breakfast at the nearby gas station. Breakfast burritos filled with an almost creamy like egg mush, and sausage, egg, and cheese biscuits. before we tool off a lady drove up to us and asked if we needed anything for our ride, it was the 3rd person to offer us something Falls Creek. Great little town. As were getting closer to the east the weather has held up great, its got a bit cooler as well so were not waking up drenched in sweat. It was a smooth ride along highway 10 and with a short ride of about 30 miles we stopped the day early in a town called Nielsville. After grabbing lunch at Subway we hung out in a grassy area near the parking lot which slowly turned into a 45 min nap from such a long excruciating day. Once we slowly awoke one by one we decided to whine down the evening with a beer at the local bar. After watching football play being analysed from TV highlights, the bartender changed the channel and we were fortunate enough to have it switched to...The Proposal, that's right The Proposal with Sandra Bullock and that one guy who always gets unfitting roles and reminds you of the dude who didn't even know but hated in highschool. But none the less we watched the whole movie happily, which I guess cycling across a country at the point you'll find anything on TV somewhat amusing. Once the credits rolled an advertisement for Bridal Wars came up and we though it was time to leave. For what we thought a nearby campsite ended up being about 15 miles away and with the sun setting we though we would ride around the neighborhoods and try to find something closer, eventually finding a nice park on the side of the road which we luckily had no problems with. The following day we woke to another good day of weather and continued our ride along highway 10. The re-route through Wisconsin which has taken us through the center as opposed to the North has been great. Scenic and bike friendly. Continuing our ride we were also getting into Amish country which is defiantly something new to all of us. We started seeing carriage signs on the side of the roads and a couple of them parked in a big barn. Eventually we saw a large Amish family sitting out in their lawn and as we road by all heads turned and faced towards us. As much of an experience as the culture seemed to us I'm sure riding by they were just as curious. With a nice ride of about 60 miles we ended our day in which happened to be a pretty big college town called Stevens point. Our first stop was dinner at a local diner that had great food for cheap[ and after discussing our plans on where to camp we thought we would give another shot at stealth camping. Riding around we found a huge park with a luxurious playground set and even had a disk golf course right along the lake side. unfortunately we didn't get to play disk gold but we did happen to find the perfectly spot for all of our tents that was surrounded by large bushed and trees staying out of sight. We called it a day and found home for the evening. And after having a beer and stargazing we rested up for the riding to come tomorrow.