Sunday 12 Aug 2018 Well up and at’em! The place was very nice, a small ranch purchased for the host’s mother, family taking care of family. Now there are guests in the front and… puppies in the back. Well, enough fun for one morning… Packed up and on the road. Breakfast at a local...
Saturday 11 Aug 2018 Woke up this morning hoping for some favorable weather… Quick check shows predictions of scattered rain tapering off over the the course of the day and with each mile east. Not perfect, but way better than yesterday and certainly heading in the right direction. We packed up, ate in the...
Friday 10 Aug 2018 Good morning! Yawn, stretch! Open your eyes, time for some coffee ;-). Look out the window, oh oh pretty dark. Check the weather; looks like we are going to be getting wet. Well, it’s early, probably should make the most of it and get going :-). First stop: breakfast. The...
Thursday 9 Aug 2018 Ok, today was unique in many ways… Shortest ride. Most ‘touristy’. Air B&B letdown :-(. Last night we were poking around on the map trying to figure out which way to go. Drop down into the heartland? Follow the lake? Target New York before starting south? Then we noticed a...
Wednesday 9 Aug 2018 On the way north we skirted Detroit to the west, but starting this morning we are already ‘into’ the metro area so trying to sort out what tack we should we take to get past the city. Wait, we’re not sailing – well if the saying fits use it right? ...
Tuesday 7 Aug 2018 All too soon it’s time to head towards home. So hard to say good bye, even when you know it’s only temporary… We wanted to leave pretty early, in order to get close to Detroit today. Funny enough it was comfortable getting back on the bike – just felt ‘right’...
Saturday – Monday 4 – 6 Aug 2018 Well, we’re here! The four day journey is done and we are about to surprise Joe at his concert… Oh, have I mentioned that yet? The pretense for this trip was to come to the concert. We timed it right, Joe is off starting the set...
Saturday 4 Aug 2018 Early start today… We are right on target to get to the concert this afternoon, but we don’t have any extra time and we have to make a quick stop for some sundries. There is a heavy dew and it’s down right chilly compared to the previous days so liners...
Friday 3 Aug 2018 We got up really late then had coffee with the host. Turns out we grew up in the same part of the country, talked about kids, work, good conversation about this that and the other. Left really really late! Like 10:15. Good thing we racked up some miles yesterday ;-)....
Thursday 2 Aug 2018 Morning started out with heavy low-lying clouds. I overheard the host talking with her husband about ‘calling for heavy rain all day’, shoot! We got down the road an hour or so before the rain started. Climbing up that first ridge it was just overcast with a few drops, second...