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Behind our motel in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, the beach is deserted in the off-season.
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Crossing the rain-swollen Mississippi River at Dubuque, we entered southwestern Wisconsin. Farmers in both states had turned over the rich soil, where small, intensely green corn and soybean plants revived the barren landscape of winter. Divided U. S. 151 continued smooth and fast, as hills rose and trees became more plentiful.
We failed to carefully study the map for the bypass around Madison and a missed turn dropped us into the city’ s downtown. Madison is a pretty city, but not one we planned to visit on this day. We remembered a slow ride through Fond du Lac and to avoid it we headed east on State Route 49, crossing the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, a very flat, marshy area, before scampering up U. S. Route 41 to rejoin 151. At a scenic overlook, we turned off to read a marker honoring Edward S. Bragg, a Civil War hero and prominent politician from Fond du Lac, but the“ scenic” quality of the overlook escaped us.