UP Bike Tour - Day 2 - Milwaukee to Sheboygan Falls

 It was supposed to be hot and humid today. So I left super early, at 6:30, to beat the heat as best I could.

Instead of getting super hot it rained. I could have slept in.

It was not as easy as yesterday. It was flat, but not as flat as yesterday. The wind wasn't always a tailwind. And it rained. But I look pretty good! I feel good.

I'm in an older motel, the "Oasis Inn and Bar". It is impeccably maintained.

There are so many bike trails in Wisconsin. I had a bike trail the whole way through downtown Milwaukee. I don't know what this building is, but it sure looks cool.

This is Port Washington, a cool little town that I blasted through before anyone was awake. This is where the rain hit.

North of Port Washington there was 15 miles of paved rail trail, the Ozaukee Interurban Trail. This was great! I don't have to worry about being run over in the rain!

 

I got to my destination, Sheboygan Falls, at 11:00. It's still cool out. I would have got here sooner, but there was all this construction on the road I chose, which was the most direct road. There were lots of barriers that said the road is closed ahead. I always ignore such barriers, because you can almost always get through the construction zone on a bike. And 2 of 3 times, I did get through on my bike. But right before Oostburg (not a typo, this is Wisconsin. They have towns named "Oostburg") they road was closed because they were rebuilding a bridge, and at this point in time the old bridge was gone and the new bridge didn't exist yet. So I had to backtrack and take a two mile detour. You can't win them all.

I enjoyed a Cuban sandwich at Junior's Eats. It was so good I enjoyed it even though me and my clothes were soaking wet.

Since it was three hours until check-in time at the Oasis Motel and Bar, I hung out in the library. Sheboygan Falls has a really nice library! I changed into dry clothes in the parking lot and hung my wet clothes over the bike to dry.

Here I am in a comfy chair by a fireplace at the library.

I rode the last couple miles to the Oasis Motel and Bar. This was around 3:00, it had stopped raining and it was starting to heat up, but it was not oppressive. The Oasis Motel and Bar has a pool and hot tub. Which was awesome.

Just down the road from the Oasis Motel and Bar, past the Kwik-Mart, is a nondescript, newer shopping strip anchored by the "Richardson Hospice Resale Store." After you are done shopping the personal possessions of the recently deceased, you can go next door to Legend Larry's and get a Bloody Mary and some wings. Which is what I did, except I didn't go to the resale store first.

Larry's Bloody Marys are so spicy they are served with a beer chaser.

I know I said I was going to only eat Wisconsin food from now on, and not Buffalo wings, but the bartender at Steny's last night claimed that in Wisconsin they specialize in sauces other than Buffalo wing sauce, so I decided to try some Teriyaki wings. And some more Buffalo wings, in case Steny's was an aberration. Also, Larry's pretty much only serves wings, and I wanted the Bloody Mary, which is prominently featured on their web page. The beer is Spotted Cow.

The wings were great. They can make good Buffalo wings in Wisconsin. Also, you have to specifically ask for celery, they don't give it to you automatically.

Here is the Strava page: https://www.strava.com/activities/15213892981