Well, it's official. Jay and I hate Wisconsin, haha. Nearly every road we took today was under construction or closed and had a crazy, hard to follow detour. Our camp site was decent, but had more mosquitos then I've ever seen - even though it was quite hot, Jay and I set up camp in long sleeves and pants because we were getting bitten so much (poor Jay is a msquito magnet - he must have sweet blood, as my Nana would say - and he was absolutely covered in bites in just minutes. It also didn't help that it was an absolute scorcher today. We were both basically melting on the bike, even when we were driving on the high way.
One good moment was when we turned a corner onto a road next to the lake and the temperature dropped from 90 to 70, no word of a lie. It literally felt like someone blasted the AC on us. It felt SO nice after four hours of baking. Sadly, this didn't last at our camp site. Though we were near the lake, we were in a heavily wooded area (hence the mosquitos) and the breeze kept changing from nice and cool off the lake to hot and humid off the land. Not ideal. But we made the best of it, eating veggie hot dogs (Jay was a real tropper with that one), beans and rice for our 4th of July dinner, drinking copious amounts of Summer Shandy beer to take the edge off, and lighting sparklers.
All in all, not our best day, but we survived. We both can't wait to get out of Wisconsin tomorrow, though. Hopefully the heat will die off as we head North.
Pictures: great view of the lake from the bike, and the typical view I have while we're riding.
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