Monday, July 17, 2006
Day 27
Tyler to New Ulm - 93 miles
Today was our first day using an ACA route. Up tell now we have been following maps prepared by the American Lung Association for their Big Ride. The Big Ride maps kept us on major highways that are very busy. Because of all of our complaints ACA has looked at the route and made some changes that will move us to more rural roads. It was nice today to not have all of the traffic.
More corn.... Today reminded me of the RAGBRI ride in Iowa. Corn, soybeans, peas and pigs.... One of the towns we traveled through was named Sleepy Eye. I tried to find out where the name came from but none of the locals seemed to know. They did have a great Dairy Queen which was a nice break at 75 miles.
We ended the ride at Martin Luther College where we will have a rest day tomorrow. New Ulm is a very "German" town with a lot of German restaurants and brew pubs. I am looking forward to exploring it tomorrow.
Today was our first day using an ACA route. Up tell now we have been following maps prepared by the American Lung Association for their Big Ride. The Big Ride maps kept us on major highways that are very busy. Because of all of our complaints ACA has looked at the route and made some changes that will move us to more rural roads. It was nice today to not have all of the traffic.
More corn.... Today reminded me of the RAGBRI ride in Iowa. Corn, soybeans, peas and pigs.... One of the towns we traveled through was named Sleepy Eye. I tried to find out where the name came from but none of the locals seemed to know. They did have a great Dairy Queen which was a nice break at 75 miles.
We ended the ride at Martin Luther College where we will have a rest day tomorrow. New Ulm is a very "German" town with a lot of German restaurants and brew pubs. I am looking forward to exploring it tomorrow.
# posted by Jack Turner : 1:47 PM
