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Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Elroy-Sparta Trail, or not: Part 1

Ready to go...
As you may or may not know, a couple weeks ago I set out on a bicycle ride to Wisconsin.  I took lots of pictures and even wrote a bit about my trip in a journal (which of course I can't find anymore).  I planned to start from my backyard, bike all the way to Sparta, Wisconsin, camp out every night, and then bike back.  I was originally thinking of writing 7 entries on this blog about the trip starting right when I got back, but obviously that didn't happen.... So instead I'm just going to post about the trip when I can, until I've posted about the whole thing.  As always, click the pictures to see the full size, and leave comments if you want.  Here goes:

Knowing that I'd be carrying everything by bicycle for hundreds of miles, I wanted to minimize the weight of all my supplies.  So of course I ended up with more stuff than Jim Carrey before he got robbed by a little old lady:



Here's what my bike looked like before it was loaded up: