Joe Green's Bike Adventure

  • Say Yes to No Dak 9-15-23

    I biked a combined 115.8 miles on Thursday and Friday (9/14 and 9/15) and arrived in Fargo, N.D. around 7 p.m. on Friday evening. Most of my route was along a busy stretch of Hwy 10, from Detroit Lakes through Audubon (pop. 561), Lake Park (pop. 725), Hawley (pop. 2,233), Glyndon (pop. 1,312), and Dilworth…

  • Detour to Detroit Lakes 9-13 and 9-14-23

    At the same as it’s gotten colder (making camping an even less attractive proposition), a lot of the motel/resort type lodging options along my Adventure Cycling route west have been shutting down for the season. On Tuesday night (9/12), I decided to stay put through Wednesday at the Vacationaire Resort about eight miles north of…

  • Deflated 9-11 and 9-12-23

    The flat tire we fixed in Walker, MN on Friday (9/8) turned out to have another, slower, leak, which fortunately I realized before heading off down the road to points west. I was still at our cabin, but once Trudi headed home on Monday, 9/11, I needed transportation to get back and forth to the…

  • The Three Rs 9-8-23 to 9-10-23

    In this case, the three Rs would be “Reunions, Relaxation, and Repairs.” Let’s start with what seems to be the least sublime of these–repairs. I was able to connect with Paul Nye at Back Street Bicycle in Walker, MN, which bills itself as perhaps “the smallest bicycle shop in Minnesota, maybe the U.S.–probably the world.”…

  • Back to the Hack 9-7-23

    I rode 61 miles today, the last four on a flat rear tire–my first flat on this trip. Today’s route took me from Hill City to our family cabin near Hackensack, MN, on Ten Mile Lake. I got started not long after dawn, which is now at 6:45 a.m., and after two stops for meals…

  • Floodwood to Hill City, MN 9-6-23

    I rode close to 40 miles today (Wed., 9/6), from Floodwood to Hill City, MN. The route was mostly on roads like Highways 2 and 200 with higher speed limits, but this was through a lightly populated area, so traffic was minimal and there were generally pretty wide shoulders. The sky threatened rain most of…

  • You Know You’re Really in Minnesota When…9-5-23

    There are some sure-fire ways to know you’re really in Minnesota, and today offered up several of them. Before I get to those, however, we need to say good-bye to the South Pier Inn and Canal Park in Duluth. The South Pier Inn is a really unique place right below the Lift Bridge, where you…

  • Meeting People You Know on Bridges 9-4-23

    Today I said so long for now to Wisconsin on a 44-mile ride from Oulu, WI to Duluth, MN. The weather started out in the mid-eighties, but then as I approached Duluth/Superior got noticeably cooler–no complaints there. I was a little concerned about Labor Day traffic, but other than a 13-mile stretch on Hwy 13…

  • Meeting People You Know at Breakfast 9-2 and 9-3-23

    Before I headed off on the bike on Saturday (9/2) for the 38-mile ride to Oulu, WI (pop. 529), a small hamlet near Brule, WI (pop. 673), Trudi and I had breakfast at our hotel, the Cobblestone Hotel in Ashland, where she bumped into Andrea, a harpist she knows from the Twin Cities. Small world,…

  • From Ironwood to Ashland, WI 9-1-23

    At breakfast this a.m. (Friday, 9/1) at the Ironwood Day’s Inn, I met Greg and Susie, a couple from the Twin Cities who also do some biking and were curious about my trip. Greg and I exchanged contact information and agreed to prompt each other next Spring to ride in the MS-150, a bike ride…