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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”

8/28/2025. Thursday Gladstone MI to Manistique MI Stats: 46 miles AIS: 4:14. 10.9 mph Elev 583 ft It rained for several hours last night but we slept like babies and our tent stayed dry. We expected it to but it’s always a relief when you haven’t camped for a year and it does in factContinue reading “Day 4. Highway 2 all day”

8/27/2025. Wednesday Fox Park MI to Gladstone MI Stats: 39 miles AIS: 3:23. Speed: 11.4 mph. Elev. 282 ft. It was chilly again last night. I put off putting my socks on all night and my feet were cold. Finally about 5am I dug out my wool socks and slept great until 7am. We weren’tContinue reading “Day 3. Tailwind… rain to finish the day”

8/26/2025 Tuesday Peshtigo WI to Fox Park MI (north of Cedar River MI) Stats: 43 miles, AIS: 3:58 speed: 10.9mph. Elev. 288 ft. Started our ride about 9:15am. It takes us about 2 hours from waking up to departing camp. It was chilly last night… the low was 48’ F. But we have all theContinue reading “Day 2. Da U P”

Monday August 25, 2025 Saumico WI to Peshtigo WI Stats: 38 miles. AIS: 3:39 m, 10.5 mph, Elev: 236 ft. Have a nice relaxed breakfast at Erin & Ryan’s this morning. It was back to work Monday for them. Erin left really early so we said goodbye last night and Ryan was up and outContinue reading “Day 1. Fresh Start”

Saturday August 23, 2025 Long drive from Billings, MT to Green Bay, WI. Not including stops it’s a 15 hour drive. We left Billings at 10pm Thursday with goal of driving about 200 miles. It was 12:45pm when we parked at a Fish & Wildlife fishing access site on the Yellowstone River outside of FallonContinue reading “Arrival Day. Green Bay Packer Gameday”

Jim started planning this route for us last spring 2025. We like to travel the end of August and September. The crowds are gone (except Labor Day) so campsites are easier, traffic is lighter… all good for our mode of travel! We decided to start in Wisconsin near Green Bay where our former Billings friendsContinue reading “Michigan and a couple of Great Lakes”