It's good to have plans and it's good to keep them flexible.
We left Cross Plains early with the plan to shuttle our vehicle to Portage and reach it in 3 days. The temperature was 71 degrees at 6:15am.

Matt, of the IATA staff, met us on our roadwalk around 8am after we'd put in about 7 miles. He shuttled us to Portage and back to the trail. We hiked on as the temperature rose. Our plan was to reach Lodi.

We received word that a storm might build in the evening and the temperature rose. It was now mid-day and about 90 degrees. We drank all our water and received more from a generous farmer along the road. You could tell by the look on his face that he thought we were idiots for walking down the road in the middle of such a hot day - we agreed with him.

Our camping options in Lodi did not pan out so it looked like we might be stealth camping with a storm coming - not something we were looking forward to. So, my mom picked us up at the Lodi Marsh trail start and we arrived in West Bend for a break tonight. We'll have a few zero days in which I'm catching up on blogging, resting our feet, and watching the Green Bay vs. Seattle football game. We're hoping for a general drop in temps and humidity, but it currently looks like Monday is back up near record highs. We'll see and keep things flexible.