Lunchtime Ride - 10/29/2024

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Today, we are having an Indian Summer day. It is sunny and 80°F (27 °C) and with a 22 mph (35 kph) wind. Between the high temperature and high wind, I was glad to have brough the eBike today. It would have been far too sweaty of a ride to take an acoustic bike.

It wound up being 8.8 miles: https://www.strava.com/activities/12775237740

Heading away from the salt mine, toward the lake. Cockpit view:
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At the lakefront. We can just see the Southport Beach House along the shore. More on that later.
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Here is the plaque showing that the beach house is an official landmark. Of course some A-hole teenager has defaced it a bit:
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Here's my Level.2 busting a post in front of the beach house. That beach is pretty rocky; not really barefoot-friendly.
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A bit further north, a MUP goes off the street and into Southport Park. Kenosha used to be called Southport, hence the name. That is a nice little inlet that is full in the summertime. Today, there were just a couple of retirees looking for attractive stones.
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I guess you could say that I brought out the big gun for today's ride. (nyuk-nyuk-nyuk)
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More to come in the next post.
 
Next, I stopped by Wolfenbuttel park, named after our sister city over in Germany:
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There is this nice pavilion in the middle. It is filled with flowers and wedding parties in the summertime.
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A closer shot, looking into the pavilion:
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Heading north a bit further, into the harbor, we find the Navy Memorial. A Kenosha native served in the US Navy in WW2 and Korean wars, and now there is a nice little plaza honoring him with a torpedo and flags.
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After that, I was out of time and rode back. Here's where my bike is parked and locked up every day.
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