Back in the Saddle (Part 2)

Well, I got us through the tunnel and we continued on for six miles to the charming little town of Monticello. We ate lunch at a great little cafe called the M and M right on Main St. We definitely will return. We rode back to Belleville, got in the car and drove South to a little place called Clarno, WI right on the Il/WI border. We had to park in the lumberyard. We hoped it wasn't a Twilight Zone moment where the town would swallow us up, but we took our chances. We rode one mile and crossed the state line into Illinois. This was quite a moment for us since we had not crossed a stateline before. We rode 2.5 miles on the Jane Addams trail into Orangeville, IL. and then rode back to Clarno. On the way back a tree had fallen down and was completely blocking the trail. For a split second we felt like it was a Twilight Zone episode and our entrance back into WI was blocked, but we simply walked our bikes around the fallen tree and were back on the trail home. We found our car just as we had left it, bungied up the bikes and headed home. It was a great biking adventure and we covered 25 miles! It felt good and right to be back in the saddle again!