July 24
Tuesday, July 24
Mount Pleasant MI
to Birch Run
74.67 miles
13.5 Avg 22.7 Max
It had to be hotter than
hell out there today! I felt like a piece of meat on a bar-b-que grill.
For the last three nights
at route rap, Doug has said it would be cooling down. I swear it is getting
hotter.
Some of the real black
surface roads are pure ovens. Michigan roads are lousy. We had some really bad
sections again today that were so bumpy they darn near rattle the brains loose,
as well as rattle the bikes too.
Sure was nice getting in
just after noon today. 75 miles was easy and I have had a good afternoon
getting all my laundry done and I spent an hour cleaning my bike. There were
lots of us outside in the shade cleaning our steeds.
I set up my laptop computer
today and thought just maybe it would connect in to my Ohio ISP. Still won’t
complete the connection. I did download about 50 pictures from my digital
Camera memory card. I’m storing them on the laptop and will get them in a photo
gallery on this web site when I get back to Ohio.
One of the motel housekeepers was so
excited when the bikes and bikers started coming in. She ran up to me in the
hall with a pen and paper asking for my autograph! Can you believe it? Frances
was coming down the hall too and she ran up to her too. The woman was so
thrilled, she just kept saying this was the greatest thing, getting autographs
of someone cycling all the way from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
The
library is about two miles from here. I was hoping to get there and read my
e-mail. But it was just too dang hot to get out there in the hottest part of
the day. Maybe tomorrow.