As I drove across the mighty Mackinaw Bridge and turned east on US-2, I was wondering what I had gotten myself into by scheduling a second week-long bike trip barely a month after my Lake Erie excursion in June. It had seemed like a great idea when I was making Read more…
Thursday, June 13, 2014 The weather remained OK as we packed up one more time and prepared for the final day’s ride. The official route plan was to take a ferry to Kelley’s Island and, after couple hours on the island, take another ferry to Sandusky and ride from there Read more…
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 The weather outlook for this penultimate day of the tour was pretty much the same as it had been for the last two days: cloudy and cool, temperatures rising to mid-70s, and less than a 50/50 chance of rain. So a decent day for riding and Read more…
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 The route for today was basically to ride to Sandusky, take a ferry to Put-in-Bay, then later another ferry to the Marblehead Peninsula and on to the resort where we’d be staying the next two nights. Since the route to Sandusky went right by our “home base” Read more…
Monday, June 9, 2014 A day of rest, clear skies, and the prospect of the longest day of the tour — 63 miles — must have charged everyone up as most of us ate an early breakfast and were ready to ride by 8AM or a little later. This was Read more…
Sunday, June 8, 2014 Most people were up early in the breakfast room, hoping to get started on the day’s ride before the forecast rain hit. Unfortunately, it started just about the time I walked outside at 7:30 and the radar images showed that there wasn’t much chance of it Read more…
Saturday, June 7, 2014 The first full day of the trip featured a route that would take us inland to visit some of the small towns of northern Ohio. The short route was 36 miles, but most of us opted for the longer, more interesting 55-mile route. Both would first Read more…
Friday, June 6, 2014 After a particularly nasty time getting through the Detroit area from home Friday morning, I arrived at the Sawmill Creek Resort near Huron, Ohio just before noon. We were scheduled for a short 1:00PM “tune-up ride”, so I was very pleased that my room was available Read more…
January to June 5, 2014. Day 0 of this trip started for me way back in January as I was already going stir-crazy from experiencing the worst winter weather in my 50 years living in southeast Michigan. I was searching around on the web for a new and different tour Read more…
This blog was started as a better, more accessible way of documenting my bicycle travels from the past few years and going forward. I started out a few years ago doing large, supported group camping tours but lately have been booking smaller “catered” tours with much nicer accommodations, i.e., air Read more…