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9/7/2025. Sunday Ludington MI layover day Weekly Stats: Miles: 276 AIS: 25:53. Avg Speed: 10.7 mph Total Elev: 7529 ft. 5 friendly honk 1 unfriendly blast 2 friendly waves 1 assholes. And 1 apology O dogs chasing 3 walk ( Suzy ) 1 walk. Jim Chores of the day: laundry…done. Groceries… done. Bicycle lube… done.Continue reading “Day 14. Ludington layover”

9/6/2025 Saturday Arcadia to Ludington MI Stats: Miles: 47. AIS: 4:23. Speed: 10.7 Elev. 1335 ft. 1 asshole. Going really fast by us on a secondary road and didn’t move over at all!! Definitely made us jump a little! Great sleep at the Arcadia bungalow last night. Our usual wakeup about 7am with a potContinue reading “Day 13. Let’s enjoy some towns!”

9/5/2025 Friday Glen Arbor to Arcadia MI Stats: Miles: 47. AIS: 4:34. Speed: 10.3mph Elev. 1643 ft. 1 friendly honk 1 friendly wave out the sunroof 0 assholes 0 chasing dogs Walk the bike: 2 Suzy 1 Jim New top number for climbing on this trip… and I felt it! More about this later butContinue reading “Day 12. Surf’s Up!”

9/2/2025 Thursday Traverse City to Glen Arbor MI Stats: Miles: 50! AIS: 4:37, 10.8mph MElev: 1246 1 friendly honk 1 friendly motorcycle wave 1 angry honk 0 dogs chasing 1 hill walk (Suzy) Our host John made us an over the top deluxe breakfast this morning! We had coffee, fried eggs, Canadian bacon, English muffinContinue reading “Day 11. 43 years ago…this bicycle union began!”

9/3/2025. Wednesday Stats: Miles: 26 AIS: 2:35 Speed: 9.9 mph Elev. 603 ft Kewadin to Traverse City MI Our gracious WarmShowers hosts Ann and Gary, had a nice granola, fruit and coffee breakfast for us before we departed. On the road at 8:30am trying to get as far as possible toward Traverse City before theContinue reading “Day 10. Wind and Rain”

9/2/2025 Tuesday Petoskey MI to Kewadin MI Stats: Miles: 55 AIS: 5:03. Speed: 10.9mph Elev . 1115 ft Let’s start with yesterdays videos We all slept well last night, up as usual for today’s long ride to Kewadin where we will stay with our WarmShower hosts Ann and Gary. We decided to push some extraContinue reading “Day 9. Extra Miles”

9/1/2025. Labor Day Monday St. Ignace to Petoskey State Park Stats: Miles: 51, AIS: 4:41 Speed: 10.9 mph. Elev, 1587 Ft. Rise and Shine was early today. Jim and I were headed to Mackinac Island and thought we were going to catch the 7am ferry… but it was 7:30. So we watched the sunrise atContinue reading “Day 8. Mackinac Island and the Tunnel of Trees”

8/31/2025. Sunday Weekly Stats (6 days): Total miles: 258. AIS: 22:45 Speed avg: 11.3 mph. Total Elev: 2618 ft. 4 friendly honks … defined by a quick toot-toot. 0 Asshole drivers: This is actually not surprising because we had such great shoulders on the roads all week. I call them “everybody’s happy” shoulders. To beContinue reading “Day 7. Layover St. Ignace”

8/30/2025 Saturday. Labor Day weekend Naubinway MI to St Ignace (ig-niss) MI Stats: 46 mi. AIS: 3:42 Speed: 12.5 mph, Elev 619 ft Our tents were so wet this morning… you’d have thought it rained all night. The condensation and dew collided during the night. Our rain fly was soaking wet inside and out! ItContinue reading “Day 6. A Great Day!”

8/29/2025 Fish Fry Friday Manistique to Naubinway MI Stats: 46 mi. AIS: 3:49 Speed: 12.0 mph. Elev. 610 ft Could be a possible speed record today. It did feel like we were moving pretty good today. Far less wind than the last couple of days! We woke up to 41’F. Chilly chilly. I noticed thatContinue reading “Day 5. Paul joins us”