Lapchik's '25 GT

[Lapchik]

Just a short trip after work again due to temperatures sticking to the mid 40s or less for another week. Mistakes were made today.

I jumped on the bike and took off right after work. It was fine, until I got out of town. The wind blowing across the hundreds of acres of lakes works like an air conditioner. Mistake one: wet, cold wind and I was too impatient to dig out my heavy gloves and ride pants. Mistake two: I took the secret back road around town, and learned that trailmax mission tires are of little to no use in mud. I had to go full "barefoot skiing" mode to get through, making me sweat (mistake 3).

I stopped at the Village for a GT picture. I have never eaten here, because every time I stop in the kitchen is closed. I suspect it is much like the ice cream at McDonalds: perpetually broken. First drinks are always mixed strong, followed immediately by ice water lightly tinted with spirits.

The next mistake (#4) was stopping to talk to my kids. Talking to them and giving them a hug was obviously not the mistake. Leaving my jacket and liner on was the mistake. I stood around just long enough to sweat a little more, and then had to drive along the lake and into the wind for several miles. I had been moderately cold, but was now uncomfortably cold and stopped to put on heavy gloves and over pants. While hopping on one leg and hoisting the pants up, I was warned by the DNR to not drive on the lake. I assured them I only look like an idiot, and had no intention of driving on the slush that is now the surface of the lake.

I got my other GT pic at the Lariat, which I have never been inside of. I'm sure Cyrus is usually a perfectly fine little town, but a lot of locals haven't cared to spend much time there since the fatal officer shooting two years ago. His son went to school with my kids.