Today's journey will take us out of the Corn Belt and into Dairy Country of Wisconsin, and the rolling hills which were left over from the last glacier period of 10,000 years ago.
And no motorcycle trip through this area would not be complete without a stop at J&P Cycles in Anamosa, IA (http://www.jpcycles.com/) reported to be the world largest after market motorcycle store. I got an H3 headlight bulb, which I had been looking for since mine bunt out 3 weeks ago, yes they had it (pricey at $10.00), store was an experience in itself, we were there for 1 1/2 hours. Lots of bike candy to buy.
We also stopped in at BEAVER, IA, at the post office, open from 7:45AM to 11:30AM, only, this is almost a ghost town, but interesting.
Pushing on east through the rolling hills we passed through Debuque, IA, which was our crossing back over the Mississippi River and our "official" passing from West to East, and also that our epic adventure would soon be over.
As we approached Milwaukee, the monsoon rain hit, with a very fast clothing change under a convenient overpass, I stayed dry, Ben chose NOT to put on rain pants - he paid the price for that. We were about 30 minutes from our hotel for the night, but it seamed like hours, 20MPH, on I-94 and we could not see a thing, made it to the hotel with some dampness around the neck, but BEN was soaked and COLD, we spent most of the night taking his stuff to the laundry mat for drying etc. - Just a very interesting day -
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