Originally Posted by
cyccommute
I ended up following US61 much of my trip. The grades tended to be better than the rural roads. It actually wasn’t all that bad, although it did vary in terms of shoulder width. Not as badly as the roads in Illinois did, however. US highways in Illinois would go from great shoulder to no shoulder on a seemingly random basis.
Yeah about the grades. After we got off 61 I remember having some hills to Red Wing. We were bummed. There was one south from the grocery store to the campground that we had to climb with dinner, breakfast and lunch supplies for the 12 of us, and we were short one person, Found out the next morning that he had been getting drunk and didn’t get to camp until sometime around midnight.