Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Day 37 - Mount Pleasant, MI - July 25th 2006
Weather: Wet and rainy, 80Location: Mount Pleasant (from Luddington), MI
Miles per day: 115.5
Average miles per hour: 13.78
Elevation climb: Neglible
Blizzards/Ice Cream to date: 27 (great one today - Georgia Mud! 9/10)
Flat Tires to date: 1
Despite the rain, today's ride was quite enjoyable, fairly flat and rather cool all day. At times, it was raining quite hard so the focus was to get the miles on the bike with little time for photos. We started out along Lake Michigan and quickly turned inland towards more farms, corn and logging. We passed a frozen food processing plant, today beans were the order of the day (for Stouffers frozen food). Glad to see it all starts out fresh. To my surprise, we also saw logging trucks. As you can see the roads are not overly bike friendly so as we saw them coming, we pull over.
We completed our 8th and final Century of the trip. I am happy to have them out of the way, although I feel like a seasoned Century veteran and have no fear of 115.5 miles. At this point in the trip, it is not a question of IF I will finish the day, it is a question of WHEN will I finish the day. And that is driven more by how many excursions (e.g. DQ, photoshoots or site seeing) we have during the day!
At our last SAG, we stopped off at Grandpa's Nursery (pictured below) and had a great time with not just one Grandpa but with Abe and Stu who are also grandfathers!
The highlight of the day was that my brother Bill, his wife Marianne and their children (Colleen, Caitlin, Corrinne, Cara, Sean and Garrett) met me at the Hotel and we had dinner at the Mountain Town Station, a very good local restaurant at a restored train Depot. Cara, my niece, made me a stash of cookies which will not last beyond tomorrow's breakfast!
