Heartland

In September, I had the opportunity to do a trip (expedition is perhaps a better word) with Backroads in Wisconsin. A company hired us to organize a 5-day bike/camping trip across part of Wisconsin for 300 of their employees. After several days of packing and organizing and more packing in Salt Lake City, 14 vans and 10 trailers headed east across Wyoming, South Dakota (making a brief stops at Mt. Rushmore, the Badlands, and Wall Drug of course), Minnesota, before arriving in New London, Wisconsin, just in time for a Sausage and Cheese festival (Mmmmmmmm, brats and cheese curds!).

It was a truly awesome trip, as our crew set up and broke down 140 tents everyday, packed and unpacked 300 sleeping bags, loaded and unloaded countless pieces of luggage, managed 300 bikes and riders everyday, and cooked the majority of the meals as well. Long 18 hour workdays, but we had beautiful weather for most of the week and I got to see an area of the country I had never visited before--Door County and Sturgeon Bay were especially impressive in September, as was my tour of Lambeau Field (even got to walk out the players' tunnel!).



The drive back across the endless farms of Iowa, Nebraska, and Wyoming was not noteworthy, but enjoyable nonetheless, due mostly to good company and open roads.