Day Nine - Elk Rapids
Day Nine was perhaps our best day yet. Despite an early mileage error in our book adding 10 miles to our planned day, we had one of the best morning rides of the trip.
Starting from near Cross Village we rode south along a road calling itself the Green Tunnel, a 20 mile section of winding one lane road that was slightly rolling, completely tree lined, and offered the occasional viewpoint of the lake from above.
After that there was a great bike path from Petoskey on through Charlevoix. In Charlevoix we had lunch at a good deli with two northbound weekend bikers who were heading home/north to Canada after a bicycling festival in Traverse City.
The morning miles were incredible, and the afternoon miles weren't that bad either, but after a long day we finally got into Elk Rapids, our planned stop. Clair walked into the local BP in order to refill her water bottle and get directions to the camp grounds, and was informed by the woman working the counter that we could camp on her mother's lawn over night if all we needed was a place to stay. Since that was all we were looking for we happily agreed, and had a convenient place to stay.
The rest of the day was spent on the Elk Rapids beach where I did some swimming and sunned myself.
Starting from near Cross Village we rode south along a road calling itself the Green Tunnel, a 20 mile section of winding one lane road that was slightly rolling, completely tree lined, and offered the occasional viewpoint of the lake from above.
After that there was a great bike path from Petoskey on through Charlevoix. In Charlevoix we had lunch at a good deli with two northbound weekend bikers who were heading home/north to Canada after a bicycling festival in Traverse City.
The morning miles were incredible, and the afternoon miles weren't that bad either, but after a long day we finally got into Elk Rapids, our planned stop. Clair walked into the local BP in order to refill her water bottle and get directions to the camp grounds, and was informed by the woman working the counter that we could camp on her mother's lawn over night if all we needed was a place to stay. Since that was all we were looking for we happily agreed, and had a convenient place to stay.
The rest of the day was spent on the Elk Rapids beach where I did some swimming and sunned myself.
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