as journaled by Brittany

48 miles

9:40

So – guess who managed to fall just outside the campground as we came in late last night? Yours Truly.  Again – I’m still alive. My knees and right arm got pretty scraped up, but I can make it. Riding my bike isn’t going to be very fun, though.

12:05

Departure

17:38

We’re eating lunch (yeah, really late, I know but dinner’s special tonight) in Milwaukee, outside this really nice grocers.  It’s a nice place – pretty much everything is artisan and thus expensive, but the environments amazing.

22:45

Arrival

23:56

Pretty much everything is hilarious after a hard days work and sleep deprivation. Still, hard and long as the day was (almost 50 miles, holy cow), we actually started going pretty fast after lunch. If we had had a 32 mile trip like yesterday? We would have been there by 19:00 or 20:00.

We missed my ‘your birthday is tomorrow but we aren’t to be near any nice restaurants then, so we’ll have your birthday dinner today’ dinner, so I’ve been promised a birthday breakfast instead (let’s be real, here, hotel breakfasts are some of the best things in the world when you’re in a rush). Hey, it’ll actually be on my birthday, so that’s something.

Look at it this way – tomorrow is going to be a breeze, after this. We made it!