On a beautiful day in the summer of 2005, I hopped on my bicycle for a ride amidst the cornfields of Indiana. I always liked to ride my bike but I never rode more than 10-20 miles at a time, so I wasn’t going far. As I was riding, the thought occurred to me that the following summer would be a good time to fulfill my dream of riding my bike across the country. As I approached the end of my ride, I got more and more excited about the trip. I thought of all the adventures I would have, and I thought about how much fun it would be to ride across deserts, mountains, and cornfields and to go cross-country with a bunch of friends. I became more and more enthusiastic envisioning the whole trip until, finally, something within me snapped. I made a definitive decision: the following summer, after my second year of teaching, I was going to ride my bike across the country.

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A mental health service called the Waukesha Police Department at 3:17 p. m. Friday to report a Waukesha man had called about a paranoid man who reported he had a number of issues from injustices from Gov. A school resource officer at Waukesha North High School requested a preliminary breath test be delivered to her office at 9:46 a. m. Friday. A vehicle got into an accident after swerving to miss a boy on a bike at 2:54 pm. Friday at North Hine and Summit avenues. A juvenile trouble incident was reported at 10:49 a. m. Friday at Waukesha South High School. A 17-year-old was taken to juvenile intake after refusing to go to school at 8:30 a. m. Friday in the 2500 block of Pebble Valley Road. A woman reported that she received her vehicle back from her ex-husband after two years at 12:56 p. m. Friday in the 2900 block of Lander Lane. A woman reportedly was throwing garbage around a parking lot because she was upset that people were spreading rumors about her at 8:57 a. m. Friday in the 1100 block of White Rock Avenue.

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