March Madness Is Upon Us Everywhere you look folks are complaining about the weather. Not just here in the Midwest but on both coasts as well. It seems that winter persists despite the best efforts of the robins and cranes to tip things in our favor. We in fact are expecting snow showers in the [...]
The Signs Sandhill Cranes circled overhead as we watched and listened to their faint but audible burblings. They were evidently a large group of nearly 100 strong and there were a few stragglers who were still trying to catch the main group. Once assembled they took off again heading north and it was indeed a [...]
These images were made by Constance Vann on a hike led by Rick Wasserman for the Old Plank Trail Recumbent Bicyclists Group.
It was an interesting couple of days that we had driving first south west towards Yorkville and then on Sunday north east to visit Kenosha. The lands south west of Wheaton are still developing. Lots of new housing and older farms, some of which are obvviously now corporate farms. This is the region where once [...]
Eventually the weather will reach the point where it becomes easier to determine whether to ride or not. Right now it is much easier to go on scouting drives to see what things have changed “on the ground” for routes we anticipate riding come Spring. Today we drove from Channahon State Park to Seneca in [...]
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