"I Love You But I Fucking Hate You"

"You can say what you want! But you ain't no Stone Cold Steve Austin!"

I kid you not, this was the screaming that woke Josh up at 3am. I fell asleep around 1am after the last country band played at Wolf Creek Campground. 

Josh woke up again around 5am to a wild pack of family dogs. I slumbered until the 7am sun began to turn my tent into a sweatbox. I feared it was late afternoon but it was only a little early morning alarm.

Josh and I had our usual quarrel over whether to eat breakfast or make our own. The local diner won me over. Good God am I glad I went. $7 buffet. We cleaned them out. 

2 helpings of eggs, 2 helpings of sausage gravy, 3 pieces of toast, 5 links of sausage, 3 pancakes, 2 cinnabons, 4 pieces of bacon, and 1 coffee. That's basically all I had to eat today and I'm not hungry.

When I came out of the bathroom at the campground, Josh had vanished. I searched all over town before coming to the conclusion he'd gone west on WI-11. He knew we were on it for twenty two miles. 

We met at the ninth mile of the journey in the face of gale-force winds. Twenty mile-per-hour winds pushed against every turn of the wheel, bustling over the hills from the West. We took a zig-zag path north toward our destination of Marquette, Iowa; finally back on route since our departure from New York.

Well, that'll happen tomorrow.

The wind kicked our ass today but we made it to Platteville, WI. 

My favorite part of the day was the dog, Chance, from "Homeward Bound". He came bounding up to us from a house in the middle of all the farms. We've learned to stop our bikes if a dog comes after us. This girl was nervous for a minute but in no time, she was rolling on her back and getting her belly rubbed. Just as soon as she'd come, she went back on her lawn and allowed us to carry through her territory unharmed. 

Wisconsin is known for its cheese. It gets by on its cheese/dairy products and tourism, which I'm finding is a key revenue staple to almost all of the United States. Tourism... not cheese. There's plenty of hills out here as well and tons of farms. I've yelled and gawked at thousands of cows. Josh probably summarized Wisconsin best: "This all looks like the Microsoft Windows 98 screens."

Obviously, that's not all it is and I gotta do some more research about Wisconsin's history. But we'll be in Iowa tomorrow. 

Early morning.

Night all.

p.s. Gonna do something new where the title is a quote we heard from the day pr something Josh or I said. This one is my quote.