Alinea Trip

While it's still a bit cold for Motorcycle riding I did receive tickets to Alinea and figured this would be the best place to post a quick trip report.

 

We had a 5:30 seating and you have to arrive on time or you get bumped with no refunds so we left extra early and even though we had problems finding the restaurant (hint there is no signage, just a black exterior) we ended up being about an hour early.  We grabbed street parking and went to the Black Duck across the street and grabbed a few drinks and waited.  About 5:00 we headed over and dropped our keys off for the valet and headed in.

The restaurant had a cool atmosphere and architecture but I'll leave it as a surprise.  The staff greeted us by name and had been briefed on all our info which was a slightly eccentric way of doing things but it established a bit of mystery.

A Jaunt to The Land of Cheese: Sarona, Shell Lake, Spooner

Back in July a friend invited me along to her family compound up on Kekegama Lake in Sarona, WI.  Even though it was rainy as hell I decided to take the sportster and hope for the best.

The trip up was a downpour until I hit Janesville then the sun broke through the clouds and I dried out a bit.  After a decent afternoon of riding, the sun started to go down and the rain came back along with a decent amount of fog to make the trip from Eau Claire a pain.