We spent 3 enjoyable days in Mackinac City parked in Linda's front yard plugged into her electricity in her garage. Very cool weather, skeeters a-plenty, and all kinds of interesting stuff. Turns out searchers actually found the remains of the Edmund Fitzgerald (and other Great Lakes naval disasters) and there are museums portraying mementos recovered from such wrecks and monuments to those who perished at the whims of Mother Nature on these massive unpredicable lakes transporting iron ore and other necessities to fuel the Industrial Might of the USA. Mackinac Island is a wonderland all its own, accessible only by ferry and allowing no motorized vehicles on its acreage except, for some reason, snowmobiles in the wintertime. I suppose the winter weather is too harsh to avoid the use of gasoline power at least for small traveling machines. We took a ferry and the dogs and toured the island and of course spent money buying food and drink there. We originally planned to take the tandem Terratrike on the ferry and use it to roam the island but we decided not to - at the last minute - and regretted the lack of the trike though we enjoyed every minute of walking around. Our new Papillon puppy is a crowd magnet everywhere she goes and our progress around the island was slowed by the continuous requests from all passers-by, young and old, to coo over, hold, photograph, and cuddle Lilly, the tiny love-bug terror. Jacque has already posted photos and videos of her on Facebook so I won't bother for now. Except for this one:
We left Mackinac and drove back south through Michigan,stopping for the night at Wilson State Park near Harrison, MI, then through Indiana and arrived in Danville IL before dark the next day.
We wanted to ride the trike today but all sorts of interruptions prevented us from saddling up and taking off until late afternoon, and we were so frustrated we rode off in spite of rain beginning to sprinkle on us. It turned to a downpour before we got a block away so we wimped out and rode back around the block and garaged the trike for a couple hours, after which the rain dried up and we took off again. Our goal was only about 4 miles distant: The local Big R store, where Jacque wished to make a return from a purchase earlier this morning. This time the rains stayed away, the roads stayed dry, and we had a largely enjoyable ride across the Vermilion River into Danville proper. We also found a frozen yogurt shop from which to purchase some divine tasting chocolate and "Tahitian Vanilla" yogurt, which wound up costing us slightly over $12 for two small tubs of the stuff. 55 cent per ounce so you math geniuses can calculate how much we ate. We loved the stuff but won't be going back for any more: At such prices who can afford it?
Ride Started: 12:51 PM Ride Ended: 4:35 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.7 Ending Voltage: 13.2 Lowest: 12.9
Lowest Temp 67 F Highest Temp: 78 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 8.18
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
5.4 MPH 6.2 MPH 33.8 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 32 minutes 1 hour 19 minutes 21 minutes
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