{"id":10288,"date":"2013-07-29T20:53:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T00:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=10288"},"modified":"2013-07-29T20:57:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T00:57:58","slug":"day-39-monday-july-29-alexandria-to-albany-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=10288","title":{"rendered":"Day 39. Monday, July 29 – Alexandria to Albany, Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful 62\u00b0 morning with a warm sun and cool breeze. \u00a0We knew we were going to have to face that breeze<\/em> later, but for the first hour and a half it was mild and off to our shoulder enough to not be a problem. \u00a0Another two mile retrace of our path from yesterday and we were back on the glorious rail line.\"\"<\/a> Saw one lake on the way out of town,\"\"<\/a> but definitely not as many as yesterday, but the fields\"\"<\/a> and sky made up for it. \"\"<\/a>Saw a darling filly comforting in her mom’s breakfast\"\"<\/a> and a baby chipmunk,\"\"<\/a> still too young to run from the camera.<\/p>\n

Our bend in the trail occurred about the same time the wind picked up to about 10 to 15 mph. \u00a0It was not brutal and we had breaks when the trees lined the path. \"\"<\/a> There were not a lot of small towns along our ride, but we had the unusual experience of biking through their back yards. \u00a0Remember, these home used to back up to the railway. \u00a0But each town had an impressive church\"\"<\/a> this one a duplicate bird feeder and\"\"<\/a> a veterans memorial. \"\"<\/a> These towns have paid heavily for our wars.<\/p>\n

Large farms\"\"<\/a> and larger fields\"\"<\/a> bordered our Lake Wobegon trail.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Stopped for lunch at Melrose Place\u00a0we are not making this up\"\"<\/a><\/em> for a light lunch of salad, sandwich, divine tortilla soup and apple pie ala mode.\"\"<\/a>“We” waddled to our destination twelve miles away, our gateway marked with a bike friendly greeting.\"\"<\/a>Since the finish to lunch was so tasty, thought we’d try if for dinner too.\"\"<\/a>We are either going to have to bike longer than 50 miles a day, or cut back on the eating……soon!\n\t\t