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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		A Bicycle Adventure to the Northwoods
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:11
	Publish Date:		2021-08-04 10:39:13
	Description:		On a steamy summer day in early August of 1960, two teenage boys living in Warrensville, Illinois, John Hudetz, age 15, and Peter Jonssen, age 14, were at home and talking about the good times they had in past summers at their uncle Ted Jonssen’s Rustic Lodge on Muskellunge Lake just north of McNaughton. While chatting they decided what a great idea it would be to pay Uncle Ted a visit. The two boys took their sleeping bags, a single change of clothes, and slipped them into packs hung over the handlebars of their bicycles. On August 8, three days after coming up with the idea, they hit the road. Hudetz and Jonssen had decent bikes, but not the sort that a modern cyclist would take for cross-country touring. Hudetz had what was described as a “lightweight” bike, which meant it was a 10-speed. Jonssen’s bike was described as “mediumweight.” It was an ordinary city bike, probably with three speeds. The first leg of the journey was the most difficult as their muscles had to become
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