We woke early and loaded up the car with the dogs and headed back to the trail. Matt and I were on the trail by 9am and we continued to stay on the smooth Central Lakes trail. Midway through the day we left this trail and entered onto the Lake Wobegon Trail which was a beautiful long and winding trail that weaved through corn and bean fields, residential houses and around a few lakes and wetland areas. Since we began back in early June, we had never had two full days of roads and on our own private bike trails. Biking these trails were amazing. Lake Wobegon ran through forests with trees lining both sides. I got to practice some mindful meditation and pedaling without hands. The trail even had little motivational signs like “exercise is forever” and “push harder” that were spaced out along the sides. Without car distraction, I could watch the chipmunks scurry across the trail. I saw a few wild turkeys and I pedaled up on what looked like four baby otters in the distant. They ran off before I could get a better look. They were either otters, minks or weasels. We were starting to get very close to the Mississippi river. We were going to end our day in Royalton, but realized we could bike 8 more miles and ride right up to Matt’s aunt and uncle’s house. They invited us to stay the night for the evening. I was sad to leave the flat, paved bike path, but was so impressed with Minnesota for having so many long distance bike paths. We biked right up to Matt’s aunt and uncle’s house and that night we feasted on the best fried Walleye I’ve ever had. It was a nice relaxing evening with family. That night we slept on the Mississippi River and one couldn’t ask for anything better.
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