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Little Falls to Albany

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We’re returning home today! One last time of packing up the tent and rolling down country roads on bicycles with 200 wonderful friends. If it’s anything like all the years before, talk will already be about what part of the state the tour will be in next year.

2024 will mark the 50th year of this event. Me thinks it will be one not to be missed.

How will it feel to be back in my bed again tonight? I know I will be looking forward to finding out.

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June 24, 2023 at 6:00 am

Sauk Centre to Little Falls

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I have no memories of having been to either Sauk Centre or Little Falls but if we have biked to these towns in previous years, I will tend to recognize them as vaguely familiar. There are usually enough similarities to out-state population centers that they become blurred in my mind over time and I experience frequent sensations of having been here before whether I actually have or not.

My first ride with this group was in 1994. There were a handful of years when I missed out, so I am never certain if I have ridden into some towns even if they hosted us at some point in the past. I have pedaled with these fabulous friends annually in June for probably 24 or 25 years.

It’s Friday and we are on the second to last day of the tour. Don’t want to stop, can’t wait to get home.

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Written by johnwhays

June 23, 2023 at 6:00 am