Despite the rain, our second day of riding was better than expected. Just to get a change of scenery, we decided to drive to the Kettle Moraine area for our road ride. Ryan knew a loop from the Tour of America’s Dairyland race, so we parked in the town of Greenbush and headed out on the roads in Kettle Moriane State Park.<\/p>\n
Along the way, we passed the entrance to the trails. Hmmm… it rained last night… well, no harm in just looking, right?<\/p>\n
Turns out, the ground in that area is incredibly hard packed sandy\/rocky mix. It had drained like nobodys business! We ended up riding the various loops for nearly an hour. They were awesome trails- at first you’re like, “hey, this is easy, flowy stuff…” but then you hit a patch of little wet rocks pocked across the trail, and you start sliding somewhat unpredictably. At first I was taking it kinda slow- the rocks were about golfball to softball in size, so you’d roll into a patch of them, and if you were going straight, the loss of control felt a little like riding sand (ok, really lumpy sand). After getting used to them, though, it was a blast.<\/p>\n
We eventually left the trails and finished our loop back to the car.\u00c3\u201a Back at the house, Ryan and I ate and decided to go out fishing on Lake Winnebago with his brother. We caught up a mess of Perch, and had a good fish bake\/fry that night. Somehow, some of my roasted green beans found their waay in to the Fry Daddy…<\/p>\n
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