Milwaukee trip - Day 2

Showers, oh joy. Fay has decided to provide us with a little precipitation and some moderate winds for our ride today. At breakfast and loading the bikes we has a brief chat with the group from Mexico. They looked somewhat underprepared for the rain as we watched one of the guys wrap his leather luggage in a green garbage bag. Some of the group appeared to have a fair amount of riding experience while some of the others did not. I think there were 6 - 8 bikes in their group. They were heading to Memphis, and I think they were looking at worse weather than we were.

Thankfully we were going to be riding the Trace for pretty much the whole day, another 355 miles or so in addition to the 100 or so we rode on Saturday. The rains were pretty constant for the first 250-300 miles, with a couple of breaks and some fairly significant downpours. The ride was great, with again, little to no traffic. We saw a little bit of wildlife, not nearly as much as I expected given that the route is pretty much wilderness. We did see a couple of deer, including a very small fawn, and quite a few turkeys, including one flock that we pretty much had to stop on the road for them to clear.






We continued on a few miles past Nashville and arrived at a hotel sometime after dark, making for a long day.