The day kicked off at Ski-Hi Fruit Farm, Baraboo, a spacious building filled with snacks, beverages, pottery, trinkets and apples, apples, apples! Apple pies, apple turnovers, apple cider, and 30 different varieties of cooking and eating apples. Outside, the valley landscape provided all the bold, beautiful colors of autumn.

At the Drivers' Meeting, Hank Netzinger gave us the outline of bio-breaks and meal-stops for the day, along with a map of the area that looked like a plate of angel-hair pasta. With the rainy forecast, our ride participants in 17 cars remarked that the weather instead was perfect for our needs. Tops down under the cloudless bright blue sky, we rolled out of the parking lot and past signs that would have led us to Devil's Lake or Wisconsin Dells. The land was a multicolored tapestry of trees, dotted with the occasional patch of silos and cows. Speaking of cows, they come in many varieties and colors in Wisconsin: Jersey (light to medium brown), Hereford (red body with white face), Holstein (black and white} and Gurnsey (light brown with white spots).

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