| On Wednesday
I decided to leave now instead of tomorrow due to its being a nice day,
and rode all day on Route 48, then Route 8 through Wisconsin to get to
Route 2 to Michigan. During the first 6 hours the weather was nice
as I was going through heavy density of trees, green brush, and sometimes
swamp like in Louisiana, but there were no alligators. Then a light
rain started and I kept myself going covered with the yellow rubber coat
and pants. At 8:00 P.M. it started raining hard and made me quit
riding. I stopped by a motel a few miles before the small town of
Manistique, MI, at the north edge of Lake Michigan. The odometer told me
that I had ridden over 400 miles.
On Thursday A.M. I
was glad the rain had stopped, but the wind was strong and steady all day.
When I came to Mackinaw, a big sign warned RV's to drive 20 MPH due to
strong winds. I believed that I managed all right except on Grill
Street I felt uncomfortable. However, if rain appeared, it On Friday A.M. I would
enter Canada, going to Toronto, Canada.
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would
make me stop until the bad weather cleared up. Turning from Route
2 to Route 75 I went all the way to Port Huron, with strong winds making
me tense and feeling tired quickly. I stopped and camped at Lakeport
State Park at Port Huron, MI. This Park is near a swamp where the
mosquitoes were happy to see me so they could bite me. But my good
tent kept the mosquitoes away!