Day 9, Saturday, 7/5. Munising to Paradise. First thing I got to do this morning was the mosquito dance trying to load my bike. Not only that, I couldn’t find the repellant so I had to put my helmet on to try and keep them off my face. It’s a good thing no one saw me waving my arms, repeating the same expletive, with my helmet on. I am a very self conscious individual….. 🙂

H58 is a county highway from Munising to Grand Marias. About 50 miles. It follows the bluffs above Lake Superior. A couple of years ago Continue reading →

Day 8. Fourth of July. Houghton to Munising. Life is good. A couple hundred miles or so on the bikes. Absolutely gorgeous weather. Days like today make you appreciate summer. Low 70s. No humidity and a few whisps of clouds. Lazy start again. Mainly because we were laughing, talking and sharing until well after midnight. We probably did not roll out of Houghton until about 1030a. Stopped for gas first thing and a couple of the bikes needed a little oil…
First stop was in Ispheming at ‘Da Yoopers Tourist Trap’. An actual store. Continue reading →

End of day 7. After laundry we left for Copper Harbor. I left the bra at the laundromat. I decided it wasn’t mine. 🙂

The roads in the Keweenaw peninsula are nothing short of great. Skirting Lake Superior, big changes in elevation, twisties, hairpin turns, beaches, forests and cute as a button little towns. Continue reading →

Ok so I pulled my clothes out of the washer and there was a bra in there????? Gotta love the UP!

Day 7. Beautiful day. Sunny low 60s, high 50’s. Got stuck on a gravel fire road for 20-30 miles. Slow go but nice. Until a sign said ‘one lane road – with turnouts’. Not all were thrilled w my route planning . 🙁  Now in Houghton. Today is laundry day. At the ‘loads of fun’ laundromat. Making up for the gravel.  🙂  Doing that and lunch, then the trek up to Copper harbor. Continue reading →

End of day 6. Calling it a night. Played cribbage on the lakefront until even massive amounts of deet couldn’t keep the Mosquitos at bay. Staying at a place called the Root Cellar. $2.75 well drinks and 2 for 1pork shank dinners. Rooms are nicer than the double tree. $50. No cell service but they have this internet thing going. Gotta love the upper peninsula. We are remote. Continue reading →

Stubs in Ontonagan. We need to leave or we will never leave. Know what I mean?

Back in MI. Beautiful day. Just went through the porcupine mountains near Ontonagan. Really nice… Looking for a laundromat. Can’t find one. Oh well. Will try again tomorrow. Stopping for a beer in Stub’s bar in Ontonagan. Wow! Continue reading →

Day 5. Rolled out of Thunder Bay and headed west. Found out the west side of town is much nicer than the east side. We stayed on the east side of course. Oh well.

Easy drive, little traffic. It was Canada day and a big holiday for the locals. In about an hour we hit the border crossing. We were the only ones there. Continue reading →

Day 4 – Monday. Made it to Thunder Bay. Very windy and foggy at times. Keeping bikes at speed on highway fatiguing. Huge temperature shifts. Temps could drop 20 degrees within a few hundred feet. Wierd. Approaching Thunder Bay we hit a spot where it instantly went up almost 20 degrees, like walking through a door. Continue reading →