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Today’s stretch of the G R R will take me from La Crosse, Wisconsin to Dubuque, Iowa. This is a distance of 119 miles by direct route and, assuming no diversions, only a slightly longer 130 or so by the …

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Seven-eleven. Would this be a lucky day? Possibly, though it certainly didn’t start auspiciously. Though she’d made me a delicious French toast breakfast Thursday, I had two reasons to skip Liz’s breakfast on Friday. First, I had a rather strange …

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Let me get this out of the way right up front – the phrase “a night of disco” is a mild exaggeration meant to grab your attention or what some might call clickbait but it is true because the night, …