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Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - July 6, 2008
July 6, 2008 - 3 milesThe night before was mostly uneventful. I sat near the beach watching the lights along the shoreline and playing games on my cellphone. At one point, a policeman came around to patrol the area. I explained what I was doing there...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - July 5
July 5, 2008 - 64 milesWhen I woke up, I slowly started to pack up my tent and sleeping bag. About halfway through, a small vehicle similar to a golf cart pulled up and the driver inside started up a conversation."Hi! Did you find us on your maps?""K...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - July 4, 2008
July 4, 2008 - 62 milesI would have liked to have stayed in Traverse City. It's a moderate-sized city that looked like a fun place to wander around. And, as I was leaving the city, people were setting up stalls and tents for the day's 4th of July cel...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - July 2 & 3, 2008
July 2, 2008 - 27 milesTerribly uncomfortable day. It started raining about an hour after I set off and didn't stop for hours. After a while, I quit trying to ride through the rain and found a picnic pavilion in Cross Village's city park where I wait...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - July 1, 2008
July 1, 2008 - 58 milesWoke up and left Mackinaw City. There's no doubt that it's a tourist town. The street I rode down is flanked by multi-story hotels, restaurants, souvenir shops, and a park with statues of historical figures important to the are...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - June 30
June 30, 2008 - 12 milesIt's Mackinac Island day! I was excited about this point of the trip for two reasons. One, it was the halfway point of the trip. Two, when I looked at websites about the town, I discovered it was a neat little tourist destinat...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - June 28 & 29
June 28, 2008 - 46 milesThe sand dunes along the north shore of Lake Michigan are stunningly beautiful. Seagulls gather along the shore and a few scattered tourists and locals wander around picnicking, swimming, or just relaxing. Not a very exciting...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - June 27
June 27, 2008 - 61 milesWoke up groggy and stiff but decided against taking a rest day. Escanaba would have been a great place to take one. It would've been fun to look around the lighthouse and there were plenty of shops and restaurants to look arou...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - June 26
June 26 - 22 milesOnce the sun had risen enough to light the road in front of me I set off again. It was cold. By this time, I was just a few miles away from Lake Michigan and the air seemed to be more humid. I brought terrible clothes for the trip. ...
Escanaba, Michigan
The waterfront park in Escanaba, MI overlooks Little Bay Du Noc, part of Lake Michigan. Video doesn't really do it justice....
Wait? There was something to be afraid of?
The Fearless Blog asked me how I could be so unafraid when I went on my bicycle tour. I'd get similar questions during the tour. People would see my bike, ask me about it, and I'd reply that I was going from Minneapolis to Mackinaw City, Michigan and...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - June 25
(I took video of the thunderstorm but my camera simply does not do night shots. In other words, it came out terribly. Which is disappointing because it was actually a beautiful sight.)June 25 - 74 milesMaybe I just picked a bad day to camp there or a...
Running Deer
No, it's not some weird Native American reference. It's a video of a deer running away I took on June 27, 2008. (It's probably the only interesting video I took while traveling to be honest.) ...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - June 24
June 24, 2008 - 44 milesI'm in Michigan! I was hoping to get to Escanaba, MI today but the hills are getting steeper which slowed me down. I'm camping in Runkle City Park in Crystal Falls, MI right now. In the morning, I'll have to climb the hill of ...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - June 23
June 23, 2008 - 42 milesLots of hills today. I got started at 8am but, as I was leaving Boulder Junction, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Walleye Bob's Laundromat! Woo! This was the first laundromat I had come across since I started the ...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - June 22
June 22, 2008 - 68 milesThe scenery has been forest, forest, and more forest. Every now and again, I'll be cycling down the road and something will rustle in the woods beside me. I'll turn my head and see a deer bounding off farther into the woods. E...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - June 21, 2008
June 21, 2008 - 51.2 milesEarlier today, I got rained on twice when thunderstorms rolled through. The first time I was a dumb-dumb and didn't put on my raincoat. Ten minutes later, my clothes were soaked through and the temperature dropped ten or fif...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour - June 19 - 20
(I wasn't really taking a lot of pictures at this point. At the time, I thought I was going to return along this route so I figured I'd be able to take more on the trip home.)June 19, 2008 - 55.6 milesWhen I started this trip, I rode through mostly s...
How to Induce Motion Sickness In Your Blog Readers
I took this on June 27, 2008, somewhere between Escanaba, MI and St. Ignace, MI. There's nothing particularly exciting about it, just me videotaping while riding the bicycle....
A Few Photos from June 17 - 18
At the DN campground, my campsite was right next to the Apple River. When I woke up, there was a misty fog covering the ground and the river.Just a little blurb about Cumberland's history.I was actually trying to capture the hills off in the distance...
Summer 2008 Bicycle Tour June 16-18
I finally worked up the motivation to blog again. I'm going to transfer three entries per day from my paper journal written during the bicycle tour into this blog. Any more than that and I'll probably overload you readers. :-DJune 16, 2008 - Minneapo...
