A Break and Back

We're back.  Since we last wrote we left Wisconsin and entered into IL, met a great bike mechanic/ shop manager who helped navigate a route to Naperville ( burb of  Chicago) fix my brakes and made an incredible dinner for us, we stayed in a quaint Inn in Oregon, IL, witnessed a drug deal on our ride to Naperville and took the train to and back from Denver for a family wedding.  We have been out of the saddle for a little over 2 weeks.  How easy it was to slip back into urban living, my cousin and his wife were our Chicago hosts who really contributed to that easy switch.  I went shopping for wedding duds and Chris borrowed items from a number of family members.  The wedding was great fun, lots of parties, visiting and memorable times.  We stayed an extra couple of days and visited old rugby friends in Grand Junction and Arvada CO and revisited Fort Collins.  Today was our first day back bicycle touring, we didn't leave until this afternoon, rode through a couple of down pours and made it to our destination by 6:30PM - how nice it will be when we get back to our route and don't have to find our routes, today though all worked out well, doing about 3/4 of our ride on rail trails.  Tomorrow we continue north re- entering WI with the goal to reach the mid east edge to cross Lake Michigan