Here we stopped a cemetary, complete with picnic tables, a water pump, a pit toilet, and barking dogs accross the street that went nuts over bikers.

I'm not sure if this picture shows it well, but if you are on a bike in this region of Wisconsin you will find that there are mountains.

Breakfast at our beautiful campsite.

A Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis) visited us for breakfast.

It was a wonderful, sunny weekend.

A Fall Webworm Moth (Hyphantria cunea).

Vacuuming the tent.

Shaded hills.

Lunch, halfway up a huge mountain.

Thomas's yellow thing he got for transforming the universe!

Thomas thought this field smelled like Europe.

Someone else must share Thomas's fondness for birds.

Read the full story below:

We biked 71.4 horribly hot and hilly miles this weekend. We left Friday, the 4th of July morning at 11:15 AM. It was a nice ride through Madison with all of the pretty bike paths. We went through Middleton and there were a lot of little parks along the way. We stopped at Pope Farm Park for brie and a sourdough baguette in the shade, and a water refill and pit stop.
Next we decended some really nice hills in the woods (I think there was a nature preserve), and past a very copper blue lake (they do mining in it). Soon we hit some giant hills. They were so steep we walked many of them. There were very few cars on them. We took a break at a historical Lutheran church that had a shade picnic table. We also had a nice break with delicious chocolate covered raisens at a cemetary that had a pit toilet, picnic tables, and a water pump.
At some point Thomas felt he was getting heat stroke and had had enough of the hills. Luckily, we made it to Blue Mounds shortly after that and got the last campsite.
We were so exhausted we didn't even go for a hike. Megan went to bed around 8 PM and didn't get up again until 8 AM. Thomas stayed up and made a fire. We didn't not completely zip up the tarp because it was so warm so it was nice to be able to see the trees from the tent.
It was also interesting to see a warning about bears in Wisconsin, apparently they have been seen more often lately in the drifless (hilly) area of Wisconsin where we like to bike.
A Red-spotted Purple visited us for breakfast. The white thing is a Fall Webworm Moth.
We left camp at 10:30 AM and went down a lot of hills, and up a very long one. Halfway up we stopped for lunch. It tasted even better the second day (I guess biking hills makes food taste better). We had the rest of our brie and baguette, and still were hungry so we had a fruit and nut chocolate bar.
We decided to skip a few of the huge mountains we had taken on the way out, and adjusted our route to go on some flatter county highways.
We stopped at an airconditioned bike and coffee shop (the Uphill Grind), so Thomas could get his coffee fix. They also had nice clean bathrooms and a water fountain with clean water (we didn't like that brown water from the cemetary water pump). They were many bikers there because the Bombaby Bicylcle club had a ride in the area that day.
We stopped at the Wild Bird Store so Thomas could get his yellow thing (his reward for "transforming the universe", the phrase his boss gives to his latest result at work).
We arrived back at home at 4:15 PM. Our average speed was 8.1 mph and we spend 8 hours and 45 minutes on our bikes.
Tonight we are going to celebrate Thomas's great result at Samba, an excellent Brazilian grill restaurant in Madison. We should really enjoy the food after all of our biking.