12 days in a Bigger Portland

We have come to love Minneapolis. It may be a sub-conscious home-sickness, but mostly we think it cause it is such diverse city were everyone is really nice, and its a huge change from the small towns of 200 people we have become accustomed to. We have spent 9 days in the city. And three days in Excelsior, a rich lake town around 15 miles west of downtown. To sum up our adventures we are going to use a picture journal to explain the adventures in a bigger Portland. So much has happened that we would be here writing a novel to explain our adventures in Minnesota. Next to Andrews house is a local bar call "the Hexagon", were we met the best bartender in Minneapolis. The bar its self was a dive bar, but Laura made up for it. Hanging out with her every night we would then venture through different districts of the town. To uptown, to downtown, to dinkytown, to minnehaha to midtown. Going to white sand beaches, then to an underground punk show, to the Brit's pub to watch lawn bowling, and back to the hexagon to see Laura. We meet a guy named Jai who took us around town and invited us to go to his concert in Excelsior. Riding out to meet them at the Bayside grill, we entered the rich neighborhood. Rolling our fully loaded bikes, and not smelling to good we entered a bar nestled right on lake minnetonka. Jai had spread the word of us biking from Portland, and by the end of the night we had hundreds of people coming to talk to us. The next couple nights we stayed at the house of the lead guitarist, David and his wife Angie. They treated us to a couple boat rides and showed us how to party. By the end of the night, Hank had over ten numbers of people offering us to sleep at their place. We can easily stay here for a while. But the time has come for us to leave the great city of Minneapolis. It has treated us well, and spoiled us to the extreme. Tomorrow we head out for Wisconsin, riding a modified route that Hank planned. Saving us 300 miles, and will hopefully make up some of the 11 days we have spent here.

Thank you Andrew and Randy for letting us stay at your house, and to David and Angie for showing us a great time, taking us on the boat and letting us stay at your place, hope we didn't make it smell to bad. Drive that RV out to Portland and we will return the same favors. Josh, thank you for the access to bike tools. . Thank you Laura for taking care of us! We will send you a large case of Oregon pinot noir when we return. And please keep in touch, all of you are making our journey better and better