Saying our final goodbyes to at the campground was bittersweet. Embarking on a the trip of a lifetime but leaving everything behind. The Elite Peloton is now down to three: Megan, Andrea and myself. We headed north towards Milwaukee to make the 7pm ferry.
The Kenosha bike trail is lovely. Trees to the left, trees to the right, nothing but "good mornings" and "oh my you must be going a long way" along the way. Megan even saw an otter! I would prefer pavement to crushed gravel, but what can you do? The trail in Racine is nice as well, but hard to follow. Several times we got on and off Route 32 to try to get back on the trail.
The most hilarious thing happened! We started to wonder whether or not we were going to make it to the ferry in time. The ferry left at 7pm, but that meant we had to check our bikes in at 6:15pm. Andrea was getting tired. We were ALL getting tired. At about 5pm and not having a clue how far away we were, we decided that Megan should go ahead and get the tickets. I would stay back with Andrea. We kept going and going on Route 32, but there was nary a wayfinding sign. Finally, Andrea chatted up a biker on a Specialized racing bike, Will from Oak something, and he escorted us to safety. But Megan had followed the map. The map indicated that we should have turned at Howard instead of going along the lake and wind up in northern Milwaukee, far away from the ferry. Andrea and I got to the ferry and Megan was nowhere to be found. Andrea turned to me and said "It says in the Bible, the last will be first." What a good sport. Megan texted me "You go ahead, I'll take the ferry tomorrow." HA HA HA "You go ahead!" HA HA HA. So I talked to Robyn, the one of very very nice people in Milwaukee, and she said she would change our tickets and waive the fee. So nice! Take that, Chicago! Andrea took the night ferry and I waited for Megan to take the morning one.
Megan felt bad and put me up in a fancy hotel (why aren't there any hostels in Milwaukee???) and bought me pineapple pizza. Mistakes taste good! We had fine showers and loaded up on travel sized mouthwash.
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