Today was the day for the scheduled group ride along the trail. The only time I can say that we were a group was at the very start.
One by one we began our adventure for the day.
Small groups formed with varying speeds and everyone rode their own ride and met up at different places along the trail. Here we found what looks like one of the CCC camps that is located on the Appalachian trail.
Susan and I did some leading and sweeping for the group until we got to the town of Lanesboro where the two of us rode on. Several others stayed in town, shopped around, had ice cream and returned to camp.
There was not much to look at along our ride, but we found the dam waterfall.
We came to a fork in the trail and were looking to ride into the town of Preston. At the fork was a sign set up with instructions to take a selfie with the trail as the background. After several tries this is what turned up of us.
After minutes of playing around with the selfie thing, Susan searched on her gps map and found that we could cut off about 2.5 miles if we took the road to Preston, did a loop and returned by the trail. Both of us like riding on roads and get a little bored with trail riding so we went for it. It was bumpy and hilly but our trusty eBikes did it for us ;’-). We got to Preston.
Lo and Behold, this was the town with the County Fair that some of the Sisters would be coming to for the Rodeo! Neither of us is interested in the Rodeo but we like some time at Fairs when they pop up right in front of us. Thing Food! We were apparently a little early and did not see any food venders. The two young gals in the golf cart that came to help us pointed right at the building we were in front of – The 4H building.
We had a basic — I mean a REAL basic hamburger and french fries accompanied by a chocolate milk for our lunch. Our basic lunch. Afterward with exit out the back door and whadda ya know! Food venders with all kinds of Fair food! Well, our lunch was cheap and we were supporting a great group.
We took some time to stroll through some of the animal exhibits.
We returned to the trail entrance and continued back to Lanesboro. Susan of course spotted a fly fisher in the river, Trout Capital that it is.
Back in Lanesboro, we had OUR ice cream treat!!
We had a few more miles to get back to camp, unload our bikes, clean up and change clothes, and make it in time for our group dinner! A long day doing what I love! I am happy that Susan wanted to ride today and to do a longer than usual ride. We had a great day.
After dinner there were quite a few Sisters getting prepped to attend the rodeo. Jodie and Becky borrowed our cowgirl hats.
Adventures with Nancy 
Looks like fun!
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Yep, we’re still smilin’ and having fun. It heats up a lot by the early afternoon but we have managed ;’-).
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Darn, I should have been reading your blog all along. That way I’d have known you were in my part of the country before you mentioned it on Cycle365. Coincidentally, just one day before you rode to Preston, I went through there while driving back from my dad’s house in Iowa. I saw the big trout statue and everything. Looks like you’re having fun in MY state. (One small correction though: When you were at the Corn Palace, you weren’t quite in Minnesota yet. Mitchell is in South Dakota.)
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DARN!! So sorry we were so close and did not get to do a meet up! Once I re-read the post I realized my error about the Corn Palace location. Have not had opportunity or time to change that. Thanks.
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