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9/11/2025. Or just 9/11 Morley to Evart MI Stats: Miles: 44. AIS: 4:12. Speed: 10.4 mph. Elev. 472 ft. We noticed immediately leaving Morley the flag was half-staff. It took awhile to realize the date today. An Aha moment! Then there’s always the remembering that horrifying day… and the many days after. We are inContinue reading “Day 18. Small town America”

9/10/25. Wednesday Grand Rapids to Morley MI Stats: Miles: 41, AIS: 3:51. Speed: 10.6 mph Elev. 626 ft 0 assholes 0 dogs We had a comparatively short day today so no rush to get going early. We departed shortly before 9am and we were on our bike path within a couple of minutes. Navigating throughContinue reading “Day 17. Perfect day, perfect evening”

9/9/2025. Tuesday Montague to Grand Rapids MI Stats: Miles: 57. AIS: 5:18. Speed: 10.7 mph Elev. 970 ft 0 assholes 1 dog. Came running but stopped well off the highway. Invisible fence maybe? Today’s ride was a long one. Longer than I prefer but sometimes you just have to go further because of logistics allContinue reading “Day 16. Leaving Lake Michigan”

9/8/2025 Monday Ludington to Montague MI Stats: Miles: 45. AIS: 4:21. Speed: 10.4 mph. Elev. 1121 ft. Another chilly morning start 44’ . Because we were warm in a hotel we had our earliest start yet… 8am. Had all the warm layers going but as usual after a few miles and the first climb orContinue reading “Day 15. Start week 3… easy enough”

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”