If you weren't on this drive, you missed a good one! Greg Garnett designed a great ride full of curvy roads through the hills and valleys of Wisconsin's Driftless Area, and his wife Cindy was great at telegraphing upcoming turns, oncoming vehicles, and road dangers such as fallen branches and gravel. Hank Netzinger did a great job as Sweep and kept the group together. Ride along with me… Never covered by ice during the last ice age, the Driftless Area lacks the characteristic glacial deposits known as drift. Its landscape is characterized by steep hills, forested ridges, and deeply carved river valleys, much different than the topography of the flatter land and gently rolling hills of southeastern Wisconsin. We rolled past Taleisin in Spring Green on curvey roads over green hills and valleys. Taliesin is the home, studio, school, and 800-acre property of Frank Lloyd Wright. Up and down the hills we saw a patchwork of planted farm crops and fields with their grazing cows. Barns and chicken coops, silos and farm houses dotted the land. The Garnetts found several long stretches - one 12 miles, one 7 - of the most gorgeous Miata-loving roads through tunnels of trees and breathtaking valley views. We drove topless until it started to sprinkle, so we were forced to stop to raise those tops as the rain fell harder. Now we drove through the rain forest, someone remarked.

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