This was the last major leg of our dash from Seattle to Milwaukee. First lets back track a little. Monday night in La Crosse saw severe thunder and lightening. Dave and I just managed to get the last willing Uber car to take us back from an excellent meal at the Irish Pub in downtown La Crosse to our hotel in the outskirts. While we observed an amazing thunder and lightening show from the safety of our 3rd floor hotel room, the town and surrounding area witnessed the worst flooding for 11 years. Our route for Tuesday had to be modified - as roads along the Mississippi were under water.
Waking to unexpected bright skies we sped along the freeway eastwards. Even putting aside the recent deluge, the countryside more closely resembled the UK in contrast to the endless agricultural plains we had crossed in the last 2 or 3 days. At Madison we popped into the Harley dealership.
Our Tour leader Jeff had planned to get us to our destination in quick order to avoid further rain forecast for the afternoon. In the early afternoon we reached our hotel, dropped our luggage in our rooms and headed to a lake-side gastro-pub for a group lunch.
We met some of the riders on other legs of the Eaglerider tours heading for Milwaukee but headed for an early night as the rain began again in force.
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