An updated Springsteen-themed bike ride at the Jersey Shore

The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music has opened and the temporary exhibit about the “Born to Run” album has closed. Time to update my fun bike ride around Springsteen’s Jersey Shore.

And I did it on his birthday no less.

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Day 6: We finish our Wisconsin bike adventure at Lambeau Field

What was that purple apple?

Does anything say “Wisconsin” more than Lambeau Field? Along with a supper club and cheese curds, of course.

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Biking in Wisconsin Day 5: Rain and the 1-pound prime rib

Back to Sturgeon Bay (and the supper club!) along the Lake Michigan side of Door County.

It’s time to turn south. Only 2 days left of our 6-day bike adventure from Milwaukee to and around Door County.

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Day 4 of the Wisconsin bike adventure: Stunning Eagle Tower and sunsets in Door County

TIL Door County loves its cherries.

This is one of the coolest elevated boardwalks you will ever see. And I mean elevated.

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I’m introduced to supper clubs on day 3 of my Wisconsin bike adventure

Michicot to Sturgeon Bay by bicycle via Kewaunee

New Jersey has 24-hour diners. Wisconsin has supper clubs.

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Day 2 biking in Wisconsin: 50+ miles from Sheboygan to Mishicot

Ships, shipwrecks, submarines and ice cream on day 2 of this Wisconsin bicycle adventure.

Now we’re starting to see small-town Wisconsin.

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A Wisconsin bike adventure: Milwaukee to Sheboygan on Day 1

This is the start of a 6-day bike ride to and then around Door County, Wisconsin.

This is the start of a 6-day bike ride to and around Door County, that long finger of land jutting into Lake Michigan in Wisconsin.

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I biked from Indiana Dunes National Park — here’s what I found

Bike into Michigan or bike for miles on trails in Northwest Indiana.

Northwest Indiana may be best known for its steel mills. But I found a number of biking possibilities — both quiet roads and rail-trails — starting by Indiana Dunes.

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A short bike ride on Indiana’s longer Nickle Plate Trail

This trail is part of the Great American Rail Trail.

Let’s get the confusion out of the way first. One of the state’s two Nickle Plate Trails is 40-odd miles between Kokomo and Rochester. The other is in the northern Indianapolis suburbs.

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I knew nothing about the 1860s oil boom and bust until I biked this part of the Erie to Pittsburgh Trail

Oil City, Pennsylvania, once was the center of the oil industry.

What a tale there is in and around Oil City, Pennsylvania!

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