Pat and Dave's Bike Trip: July 10, 6:30 p.m., Mentor, Minnesota

That couldn't happen in the south - in the summer, of course, we would have been well done - cooked through and through, our skin 100 percent melanoma or squamous cell cancer. ... Saw a bunch of late thirtyish women drinking beer and oohing and aahing over cell phone pictures. Assumed children. Wrong! Dogs! Some things are forever. We have three days to get to McGregor where we will visit with Sherrie's cousin, Zondra, She is avoiding my calls, but it will not work. ...