Today was my sister Kylie's 22nd birthday! Happy Birthday, Kylie!
In other news, we crossed Lake Michigan on the SS Badger. It took four hours to travel sixty miles, and not a single pedal stroke. They made the bikes ride steerage, though, which I felt sort of guilty about as we sat on the stern and watched the razor's edge of Ludington dissolve into the bright blue of a chilly June morning. Really, darling readers, it's not broken seventy for the past... three days now, is it? Makes for nice biking weather, and even better sleeping weather. I mean, I've been sleeping like a rock. Also, as I was just telling mom, my back (which usually bugs me most days) hasn't bothered me this whole trip as we close in on three weeks. Chalk it up to the tiny little sleeping pad and the comfortable arch over my Long Haul Trucker.
Speaking of three weeks, tomorrow (day 21) will be our first whole day off in like, twelve days maybe? We're in beautiful De Pere Wisconsin -- which sounds kind of like sarcasm but is actually very sincere -- and staying with my dear grandmother on very short notice. My mom also flew up here from Illinois, which has been the best part of this whole terrific day. I love my mom like crazy. Also my cell phone won't charge, and I'm really hoping that it's the charger itself. This is probably the closest we've been to a Verizon store on the whole trip, so thank goodness for timing.
So after the day off (and hopefully I can write some more tomorrow because I want to talk about things like the Command Suit and the Longest Date Ever and some more people we've failed to thank) we'll ride more or less straight through central Wisconsin to St. Paul, where Bonesy and I are looking forward immensely to visiting Garrison Keillor's book store, Good Books. You all should feel very lucky that I always write under time pressure, or I would just blather for ever. There would be more footnotes, too.
By the way, Grandma just totally housed about half a pound of burger. I admire her to no end. And speaking of figures of admiration, Steve Garufi featured us on his web page (that is, we admire him -- not that we, personally, are the figures in question). Awesome.
Ride on.
(But though actually not, right? I guess I should say "hold up," or something. But to all you, and potential future readers, Ride on.)
It's been great following your trip on here. By my accounts, you had just about fallen off of the face of the earth prior to your Facebook rebirth. Best of luck in your future travels. Looking forward to seeing you again on the other side and hearing more about everything. What you're doing is truly inspirational.
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Good Day to you, my dear riders. Hope you got off on time and refreshed from pitstop at Grammy's. (Did I place the apostrophe correctly?) Have read your post over and over along w the rest of them. Public declaration of love and connection to your dual matriarchs makes me smile, and cry, laugh and swim in mother's milk of depthless love. You are writing as if in person and at the end of the bed shaking my feet awake. What an awesome time together which I will hold dear forever. Thank you for sharing time, energy, effort, Jessa and yourself w us. Be well, be careful. I have one son.
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