Last night, Dave cooked us a fabulous dinner in camp of filets on the grill, mashed potatoes and salad. Everyone enjoyed the great quality food!
We had some strong storms overnight. The seam tape on our fly had peeled off a couple days ago, so we were not in good shape for the storms. The fly leaked into the tent all night, leaving the bottoms of our pads and ends of our sleeping bags wet. It will have time to dry out this afternoon.
We knew we had a long day to get to Ludington State Park. We also knew we had quite a bit of climbing in the first half of the day. I finished with a little more than 2,100 feet. I was riding "naked" again today which helped with all the climbing. Two of the hills were 10% - 11% in parts. At least I still had a few gears left. The legs get stronger everyday! The grades of the hills decreased some the further south we went.
We stopped at a scenic overview to get a pretty shot of Lake Michigan. But we couldn't see much - it was obscured with fog this morning after the storms we had overnight. This was all the view we got!
We stopped in Onekama (O nek uma) for second breakfast/lunch at the only diner in town. We ran into Elie there waiting on his breakfast. He was driving the van today and Dave was riding. Like many of the small towns and diners so far, they were understaffed so it was a bit of a wait for food. But the food we got was very good!
We didn't have any bike paths today but Adventure Cycling did a great job of routing us on back roads that were quieter than the highway. We rode along the shore of Lake Michigan for a while and were rewarded with nice views.
Once we got to Manistee, we knew we were about halfway for the day. As we continued south, the roads started flattening out. What a relief that was! And even better than that, we had a nice tailwind pushing us south. The miles flew by, which was good since it was a long day! The scenery was beautiful again today - here's a couple of places that caught my eye.
The only bad part was we turned and headed northwest to get to the state park. It was about 5 miles into camp, this time against the nice tailwind we had! We drove into town for dinner and then back to camp. We don't have any cell service down in camp so you'll get this tomorrow sometime when I remember to post it. Everyone was tired from the long day and we were in bed before it was dark!
Tomorrow is a shorter day and our last day and night with the luxury of the van. That also means no more riding "naked"! Let the games begin...
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