Day Two 'A Mesozoic What?'

Day Two “A Mesozoic What?”

Today started with a nice big sleepy, ‘How do you do?’. We both slept better here than in Pipestone 
for some reason. It was probably due to the fact that we’d just riden our bikes a fair distance. 
To start reading from the beginning go to this LINK .

We got on the road without much problem thinking and hoping for a breakfast place but there wasn’t 
one; as a matter of fact, there wasn’t anything but road from Avoca to Mountain Lake. 
This turned out to be the hardest day of the whole journey; although, it wasn’t the largest in terms of 
miles at all. 

The fun thing about riding your bicycle across the state is the speed. You’re going around ten miles 
an hour with all of your bags and really tasting life. The smell of summer on a Minnesota county 
highway as you straddle the road between Soybeans and Corn fields will never leave me. For me this 
is the smell of freedom all mixed in with a hot road and the sound of bicycle tires and gears traveling 
across it. Cycling through my home state of Minnesota is an experience I won’t soon forget. 
Meeting her people, seeing nature in all of it’s abundance and groovitude (my own word), breathing 
her air as we cycle through the southern parts has been one of the joys of my life and a truly wonderful 
adventure. 

Having said that I will also say that this day held adventure for us. 

The Google lady took us on about ten miles of gravel roads. In the video you’ll hear me talking about 
four miles and then at the end it’ll seem like I’m exaggerating but at the point I said four miles I didn’t 
know we were about to turn onto another gravel road and then yet another. After a while it sort of gets 
to you. It’s harder to ride so you burn more calories, and work way harder riding in gravel. Elissa has 
a road bike so it was very difficult for her and as it turns out she ended up with a flat when we finally 
arrived in Mountain Lake.

Just before bed in Avoca we’d decided to get an Air BnB in Mountain Lake and it was a good thing too 
because the people whose house it was helped us with the flat, gave us some grilled tater tot hotdish 
(I grew up in Minnesota and never ever knew you could do that. It’s way better than in the oven.), and 
provided a wonderfully perfect country setting to rest our bodies. Not to mention the first shower in a 
few days which was nice as well. We are forever grateful. 

Mountain Lake seems to be a town which like so many other rural towns is slowly passing on. 
The people there are wonderful, the setting is picturesque, but the kids grow up and move away. I 
mean you can’t blame them. The world is a big place full of adventure and when you’re young and 
full of piss and vinegar that’s what you want to see and that’s what you should see. I just wish they’d 
eventually go back so we could keep these tiny towns alive. 

When we got into town we were starving so we stopped at a place called, “King Egg Roll”. It’s right 
on the main drag across the street from the grocery store. You can’t miss it. Oh boy I don’t think food 
tasted so good...well actually we were so hungry we should have used our snow shovels for spoons. 

If you get a chance you should stop there, it's a great place. 

Here is the map for this weeks adventure followed by the video. Please feel free to share this with all of your friends. Lets make this a movement and see where we can bring it.

Here is the video for this week's adventure. 

Peace, Love, and Groovitude

   The Marty’s