Day 7 - Manitowish Waters WI to Paulding MI

Today’s Miles: 60

Total: 366

A beautiful day of riding today.  Actually, we wondered whether we would see some rain.  There were storms all around us, but we were to stay just in the middle of it all.  The only moisture we did see was as we were riding to end the day; there was a mist that we were riding in.  It just got you a little wet and messed up the glasses, but that was better than being soaked.

We had some nice trail riding today.  There was a trail out of Manitowish Waters that went for 13 miles or so and I think it was one of the most beautiful and best maintained trails I have ever ridden on.  I’m sure it was quite new, but it was nice.

 The trail we rode.

We then returned to the road and had a new road surface for another 15 miles.  That was nice as well.  The road was busy with asphalt trucks, but as soon as we passed the asphalt plant, it was quite nice.  We rode through Land O’ Lakes, WI and had lunch at a nice little café and then turned north.  After turning North, we had a great tail wind.  I mean we were moving along at 15 MPH, which felt great.  We ended the day having a 12 mph average speed. 

The "Dairy-Maid" for lunch.

We entered Michigan today.  We are in the upper peninsula (UP), if you are familiar with Michigan.  I really don’t know how to explain it, so just Google it.  We will go across the UP and at Sault St. Marie, we will enter into Canada.  So far I am loving Michigan roads.  They have a great shoulder on the road we were riding today.

It was cloudy here for most of the day.  I am sure part of the storms all around.  The high today was 68 and I think it is getting down in the upper 40’s at night.

We are staying this evening in a lodge in Paulding, MI.  It is kind of rustic, but nice.  Cooking dinner right now.  Before we left, my sweetie Carey, wrote us all these recipes that would work in making dinners and be easy to prepare, buy and carry.  We are cooking her corn chowder dinner tonight.  Thanks Carey Ann.  Those recipes are really helping us out.

Our lodge for the night!!

Each day we have to stop at a grocery store close to our stop and buy the groceries for that night and breakfast and lunch the next day. That way we only carry the food a short distance.  The tricky part is when a stop has no place to buy food close and we have to carry all the stuff further. It all takes quite a bit of planning every day.