Port Wing, WI to 10 Miles North of Duluth, MN

Today was a good 65 miles of fairly flat roads and some SSW winds. We got up early, packed up and headed to Ruxy's Cottage Cafe (the only place open) for breakfast It was full of locals so we joined Bucky, Faye's husband and then Larry joined us for coffee and quiche. Larry's a retired dairy farmer from east of minneapolis that has a summer home in Port Wing and does odd jobs to keep busy. There was a table of ladies in the corner chatting over their coffee. When we left I asked the ladies about the road and so far they gave us the most accurate information Once we got to where route 13 crosses US2 we jumped on the bike path to go into Superior, WI. Only problem, it was hardpacked small stones for 2 miles. Then it became an old broken up paves trail followed by large stones. If we didn't take the trail we would have been on US2 which is a busy highway in that area. After some pushing the bikes and lifting them over train tracks we finally made it to the paved trail. From there we had to get over the Bong Bridge into Minnesota There are two bridges but only the Bong has a sidewalk. That bridge is very busy now because the other one has constuction on it. Once in Minnesota we followed the bike route heading north that took us onto the Lakewalk path. When that ended we rode on old 61 to our night's location, Cape Superior Inn. It's and old mom and pop place. Does the job. There's a restaurant next door for dinner but we're on our own for breakfast. Fortunately we have food we picked up along the way, raisin bread and fruit Two Harbors is about 15 up the road and we'll stop there for a real breakfast

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