A Hard Rain and More Fireworks Please

This is the first of the blog entries that the Elements will be entering over the course of The Ride!

3rd day of The Ride and we've brought ourselves here to Brewers Town. We woke up yesterday morning after listening to the sounds of lightning trough the night at the lake mills camp ground. It managed to not rain or shine too hard the whole day before but it poured in on our little tents and tarps all night. It was sunny by the time we left after steaming our clothes over the fire and headed out to The Hardest(longest) Day of The Ride. 67 miles,one day, and a lot of weight. Folks worked hard and we pushed on. The day was not all hauling and soar knees. We took a good ole ice cream break after running after an Ice Cream Truck that hadn't had so much buisines since the 1950s and a wonderful naked plunge into a divine creek.
We decided to ride in Mass into Milwaukee for the last 17 miles which would prove to be the most confusing! But surly enough the traveling hapenluck hooked us up with a Milwaukee Bike Club that was headed right to River West (to the CCC)! Not soon after we rode past the Miller Stadium as Fireworks were set off and hundreds of people cheered! We rode over 6th street bridge and took a whole lane-o-traffic and yelped our way through tunnels. We all Eventually made it to the CCC and to our last home stop of the UEC, all by the grace of our legs.

I would like express my infinite gratefulness to the PermiBus for their care, support and wonderful cookin we would be eating roadkill if it wasn't for you !!!!

And I would like to verbally kiss the knees of all those parents that hauled their children and all their gear! Mary Jo, Guido, Sarana, and Josh you all are the deities of our ride.

w/ a big ol deep breath
-boi