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Coon Rapids, MN to South St. Paul, MN
Coon Rapids, MN to South St. Paul, MN Miles: 51 * Avg Speed: 10 * Crashes: 0 * Wildlife: 0 * Hotel with Pool/Spa: Not exactly. Today stands out as the worst… Read More ›
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Little Falls, MN to Coon Rapids, MN – 2 days
Little Falls, MN to St. Cloud, MN Miles: 41.2 * Avg. Speed: 11.5 * Crashes: 0 * Wildlife: 1 * Hotel with pool and spa: Not this time! This morning dawned a tad… Read More ›
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Pequot Lakes, MN to Little Falls, MN -2 days
Pequot Lakes, MN to Brainerd, MN Miles: 26.1 * Avg. Speed: 11.8 * Crashes: 0 * Wildlife: 1 (garter snake crossing the trail) * Hotel with Pool/Spa: Check! (and evidently free goodies too!) For… Read More ›
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Bemidji to Pequot Lakes – 2 days
Bemidji to Walker Miles: 37 * Avg Speed: 11.5 * Crashes: 2 * Wildlife: 1 * Hotel with pool/spa: check! The MRT is routed the best way possible along the course of… Read More ›
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Lake Itasca to Bemidji, MN
Lake Itasca to Bemidji Miles: 33 * Avg. Speed: 11.7 * Crashes: 0 * Wildlife: 0 * Hotel with Pool/Spa: check! Because we only planned to ride 30 miles our first day, we decided… Read More ›
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Across The Water
Biking The Mississippi River Trail… I was born in Louisiana a few blocks away from the Mississippi River. I like to claim that that’s where the attraction started -as if the siren sounds of the river somehow floated across those… Read More ›
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Ireland – All Good Things Must Come To An End
“…I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk…” -John Geddes, A Familiar Rain- For… Read More ›
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Ireland – Part 6
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center. -Kurt Vonnegut- The next part of our… Read More ›
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Ireland -Part 5
“One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides”. -W.E. Johns- Before we even arrived, Yvonne had figured out a touring schedule to cover the nearby attractions. As part of that she had built in… Read More ›
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Ireland – Part 4
“The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.” -J. B. Yeats- WE proved Yeats (born in Ireland) wrong! Today’s plan was to visit Killarney National Park. It was about 1 1/2 hours away toward the… Read More ›