{"id":1616,"date":"2014-06-15T18:43:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T18:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","slug":"trempealeau-camping-and-biking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Trempealeau &#8211; Camping and Biking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We try to get to Trempealeau every year to camp at Perrot State Park and ride bikes. \u00a0This year was no exception.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike some previous outings, we had a varied crowd show up this time. \u00a0Jean and Joe brought down their recently acquired, and totally awesome, Airstream from Minneapolis. Jane and ? came along as well.<\/p>\n<p>Dave S. was in town from Missoula, along with his road bike.<\/p>\n<p>On our more &#8220;festive&#8221; party nights, Iron and ?, along with Scott, came up from LaCrosse.<\/p>\n<p>We rode for several days with Madison friends Guy and Ann, who camped off on their own, along with some friends of theirs we didn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>One day Joannie and Ralph, along with kids, came up from LaCrosse and rented a pontoon boat for us all to enjoy a Mississippi boat ride. \u00a0The river was at serious flood stage. We were warned up strong currents and debris in the water, which eliminated any notion of swimming. \u00a0What we weren&#8217;t warned about was a dark rain front, which barreled in on us less than an hour after we&#8217;d departed under sunny skies. \u00a0We had no choice but to turn and run for it back to the marina. \u00a0Major bummer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2014\/Trempealeau\/46724175_QL2crN\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1618\" alt=\"P6220055\" src=\"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P6220055-300x176.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P6220055-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P6220055-1024x602.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/P6220055.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We try to get to Trempealeau every year to camp at Perrot State Park and ride bikes. \u00a0This year was no exception. Unlike some previous outings, we had a varied crowd show up this time. \u00a0Jean and Joe brought down their recently acquired, and totally awesome, Airstream from Minneapolis. Jane and ? came along as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=1616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trempealeau &#8211; Camping and Biking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-photo","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}