Lumberjack Championships

Day 118, July 28, 2011, Lumberjack Championships

Route from Mercer to KOA Kampground, Hayward, WI

94.4 miles, averaging 14.1 mph

Worst Moment – Neita has wanted Chinese food for the past several days and since we were close to town, we thought that we could pick some up and bring it back to Ruby.  What a disappointment - the Mongolian Beef and Cashew Chicken tasted the same and were mostly celery.  I guess we’ve been spoiled by the Chinese food that we would get at Pei Wei’s, Flo’s, Jade Garden or The Bamboo Club at home.  

Best Moment – riding through rural northern Wisconsin’s amazingly beautiful lake country this morning.  There were lakes on the left and lakes on the right and hills ahead.  And there were lots of deer grazing on the shoulder of the road.  I could get fairly close before they would raise their head in attention, prick up their ears and take across the field or into the woods with bounding leaps.  Amazing!

This is wild life country – lots of fishing; and apparently there are a lot of elk; and from the signs and statues, lots of bear as well.  This is really a beautiful part of the country. 

In addition to a lot of beautiful farmland, beautiful woodlands, and dairy farms, there was this pretty cool Christmas tree farm

I got to the campground and found out that it is Lumberjack Champions weekend coming up.  This entails, all of the traditional lumberjack feats like log rolling, chopping and sawing for both men and women - the town was hoping in anticipation. 

We went into Hayward, a really cute small town.  They have one incredible bakery!  We got cookies and pecan rolls! They also have a winery - Hook Stone Winery.  The wine was only okay, but at least it was made with California grapes (except the apple wine – that was way sweet.)

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