Our faithful Subaru got us, our bikes, and our camper to Kentucky, after we spent a rainy night in a campground in Illinois. Dan dropped my bike and me off in Lexington, where I wrapped up my 30th day of riding. (He camped in southern Kentucky.)
We then went to Frankfort, where we had a really fun few days with my aunt, uncle, and cousins. We went on a behind-the-scenes tour of Buffalo Trace distillery, went for a bike ride and nature hike, had a beer with an interesting group of Kentuckians, went to a Shaker historic site, rode our bikes there (that's when we loaded up our car with our bikes and their bikes), had a college graduation party for my cousin, and went to watch some live music. Most fun for me was visiting with my family.
We are on the long drive back. While our car has held up nicely on this journey, our bike rack adapter for my wide-forked mountain bike that can turn into a fat bike has been a little temperamental, deciding that it wanted to try tossing my bike on the interstate, near Rockford, Illinois.
It wasn't quite successful. While the front if the bike came loose, the back held. But my bike thrashed around on our car a bit, so the bike and the car will need a little fixing.
Thankfully, the bike didn't come fully free and break someone's windshield, or even break our rear window in its flopping dying fish phase. That was interesting.
So, the MS150 is quickly approaching. Time to start training for real now, picking up my weekly mileage!
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