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Saturday, May 30, 2026

Milwaukee: Harley-Davidson Museum and demo rides, charging home through Kenosha

The last big untethered day before hitching back up. A food-truck breakfast, an outdoor bike show, Harley demo rides, and a full afternoon in the Harley-Davidson Museum, then the trip's first Tesla charge in two days on the way home through Kenosha.

  • 155 miles
  • ~3.5 (local, untethered) drive hours
  • Kenosha Tesla Supercharger (120th Ave) first charge
  • Friends near Fox Lake, IL tonight

Weather: Clear, high near 70 on the lake

The day, by the numbers

  1. Miles driven155mi
  2. Cost per mile33.6¢ / mi charging
  3. Towing efficiency2.30mi / kWh155 mi · 67 kWh
  4. Energy67kWh used · 82 kWh charged across 1 session
  5. Peak charge rate198kW
  6. Wind10mph NEMostly tailwind
  7. Temperature63°F54 – 63°F range
  8. Peak elevation850ft↑ 510 ft↓ 360 ft
  9. Avg speed44mph · 3.5 hr moving
Photographs

Day 17 in pictures
Demo rides: all the photos and video

Eric and Will test-riding Harleys in downtown Milwaukee, off the cone-lined demo course. The full set, plus the clip.

The demo line staged downtown, bikes and helmets waiting for the next group.
Eric and Will test-driving Harleys in downtown Milwaukee, off the cone-lined demo course.
Pulling away from staging, the demo loop runs a few blocks of downtown.
Onto the course, threading the cones on a borrowed Harley.
A Milwaukee-blue CVO ST Road Glide, one of the demo bikes, with the old Falk works behind.
A blacked-out Nightster in the demo lineup.
The full demo lineup, more bikes than we had time to ride.
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The day

  1. food

    Open-air food-truck park

    Breakfast from the stalls at an open-air food-truck park to start the Milwaukee day, the easy way to feed a group with different cravings. Diana started on an iced matcha with mango.

  2. scenic

    Outdoor bike show, Milwaukee

    A row of customs in a lot against a wall of Milwaukee murals: a pink hardtail chopper out front, baggers and a rat-rod truck behind, vendor tents along the fence. The kind of unplanned scene a museum day in Milwaukee throws in for free.

    Map 43.0249, -87.9181

  3. activity

    Harley-Davidson demo rides, downtown Milwaukee

    Then the bikes: Eric and Will took Harley demo rides off the cone-lined course in downtown Milwaukee, a red Sportster and Nightster among them, plus a Milwaukee-blue CVO ST Road Glide. We run an electric household, but when we do burn fossil fuel, it is almost always on two wheels.

    Map 43.0303, -87.9171

  4. activity

    Harley-Davidson Museum, Milwaukee

    The Harley-Davidson Museum on Canal Street, and it earned the afternoon. Serial Number One, the c.1903 atmospheric-valve single in its glass vault, and a 1911 Model 7-A beside it. A U.S. Mail sidecar delivery truck, a carbon-fiber factory race bike on Öhlins shocks, the AMF-era 440 snowmobile under the Great American Freedom Fashions banner, vintage hill-climb posters, the soaring Art and Engineering atrium with a bike climbing the wall, a peek into the Harley-Davidson Archives racks, and the sit-on Experience Gallery where Diana climbed onto a new red Road Glide 3 trike.

    Map Official site 43.0316, -87.9164

  5. charge

    Kenosha Tesla Supercharger (charge home)

    Tailwind on this leg 10 mph from the NE

    Charged on the way home at the Kenosha Supercharger on 120th Avenue (7145 120th Ave, 4:42 PM), pulled in next to a Chevy Equinox EV with the lot half full of EVs. 81.7469 kWh in 29 min at $0.41/kWh, $33.51 + $2.45 tax = $35.96 (Invoice 3000P0313844047). The dashboard read Trip A 3,110.5 mi at 1.32 mi/kWh and Trip B 240.3 mi, the whole untethered Chicago-area stretch since the last reset. First charge since the McHenry IONNA two days back: 240 untethered miles on a single fill.

    Map 42.5690, -87.9477

  6. food

    Dinner at Colony House

    Tailwind on this leg 10 mph from the NE

    Dinner with friends at the Colony House, a wood-paneled Wisconsin supper club back across the state line. Espresso martinis and old fashioneds at the terrazzo bar; Diana ordered the halibut special and Eric his usual favorite, the ribeye, with a creamy caramel dessert drink to finish. Yummy food, good drinks, the right way to close a Milwaukee day.

    Map 42.5063, -88.1209

  7. sleep

    Friends near Fox Lake, IL

    Back to the friends' for the last basecamp night. Tomorrow we hitch the Airstream up and start the run west toward Colorado.

A row of custom motorcycles in a Milwaukee lot against a wall of bright murals, a pink hardtail chopper in front of baggers and a vintage truck, vendor tents along the fence
Day 17 An outdoor bike show against the city murals. A pink hardtail chopper leading the row.
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Charging plan

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    Kenosha Tesla Supercharger (120th Ave)

    7145 120th Avenue, Kenosha WI 53142 (250 kW DC). The first charge since the McHenry IONNA two days earlier, on the way home from Milwaukee. 81.7469 kWh in 29 min, $35.96 ($0.41/kWh + tax).

Detailed charging data

5 receipts, app screens, pedestal displays, and Rivian dashboard readouts. Click through with the arrows; tap the tile to view full size.

Trip A 3,110.5 mi at 1.32 mi/kWh, 2,363 kWh trip-to-date. The untethered days pulled the cumulative average up from 1.26.
Trip B 240.3 mi, the whole untethered Chicago-area stretch across May 29 and 30 on a single charge.
Tesla app summary for the Kenosha charge, 81.75 kWh for $35.96.
Session detail, 81.75 kWh in 29 min at 7145 120th Avenue, Kenosha.
Tesla emailed invoice, $0.41/kWh plus tax, $35.96 paid at Kenosha.
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Day 18, Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward, then a charge home through Kenosha

A friends'-backyard breakfast, then one more untethered run to Milwaukee: food trucks for coffee, the giant blue glasses at Catalano Square, a beer garden with family and live music, and an early dinner at Camino. A Tesla charge home through Kenosha, then a camper reset for the hitch. Last night before the Airstream goes back on.

116 mi · ~3 (local, untethered) · wisconsin