S/V FireFly: HD trip to Cable Wisconsin and Namekagon River Kayaking

With the HD recommended 500 mile break in period completed, it was time for a real road trip! We watched the weather closely as neither of us were willing to ride in a rainstorm for 6 hours up to the North woods of Wisconsin. As Thursday arrived, it could have gone either way but it looked like we had a decent weather window to make it up there Thursday and Friday was going to be a great day for the entire state. Cable Wisconsin is the home of the famous Telemark lodge and the site of the Birkebeiner Cross country ski race, which takes place every February and brings in more than 10,000 cross country skiers from all over the world. It also boasts great summer activities and we happen to be lucky enough to have friends that have a house right on the Namekagon (pronounced Namakoggin) river. We rode up there in 5.5 hours (350 miles) with nary a drop of rain but it was fairly cold (high 40's) with winds gusting to 35 knots!! As we rolled into their garage, down the rain came--It's always better to be lucky than good ;). We had a great time visiting with our friends and even did a nice kayak trip down the river Friday morning ( video link below). The ride home Friday was simply amazing-the weather was perfect and it was smooth sailing all the way home. We ended up clocking a little over 700 miles on the odometer, I guess I better get it in to HD for the 1000 mile service. Enjoy the photos