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Get cheered on by someone We were at Riverside Canoes where we had just finished our kayak trip down the Platte river and were getting geared up to bike when we started chatting with two young guys who were traveling by bike with a smaller amount of gear. (Surprisingly, we haven’t seen very many cycle tourists at all!) One of them came up to Robert and asked about our trip. He then asked how old Robert was… 64. He then said “wow, I’m only 20, so that gives me hope that I’ll be doing this kind...

Highlights: For so long it has been ride or die. We pass through a lot of cute little towns but we don’t want to look at the shops because we can’t carry more, and we can’t buy food in every town or we’d go broke. So we rarely stop unless they have a nice park for a rest break. Well, we became tourists real quick. Mackinac Island is very commercial, but we loved the energy. We rode the 8.2 mile perimeter trail, stopping to look at the arch and other sites. Just cruising easy with the 100s of...

Tent pole breaks Borrow something while camping In Manistique Mi there was rain in the forecast, so at the campground Bliss asked if we could stay under the pavilion. The lady said that would be fine. But the pavilion was in a public parking area. Quite a few people drove up to go to the lake. So we waited to put up the tent. As it started getting dark most people left. There was one guy who parked his huge converted bus in the parking lot to stay the night. As we were putting the tent up he...