Get your motor running..

With the "A" race of the season now safely put to bed and after events five weekends in a row, I get a bit of time to relax and kick up my heels...right onto the floorboards of my motorcycle! We roll out Sunday for excitement, adventure and really wild things - camping at South Higgins Lake State Park in Roscommon, MI on our way up and across the Mackinac Bridge to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where we'll spend two nights camping and exploring at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Sand dunes! Waterfalls! Lighthouses! Caves!

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We hope to camp at Hurricane River, which actually has a 1.5 mile trail that leads past the remains of an old shipwreck to the Au Sable light station.

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From Pictured Rocks it's on to Wisconsin for a night at Governor Thompson State Park, then our final destination is Hixton, WI for a rally at a friend's place out in the countryside. There will be good people, good riding, campfires and most likely a wobbly pop or two as we help our American compatriots celebrate the 4th of July.

Sunday we'll start our journey home by riding to Milwaukee, WI to catch the evening Lake Express ferryboat across Lake Michigan, cutting several hundred kilometers off our trip back to Ontario. We'll hit up a hotel in Muskegon for the night as the boat doesn't arrive until 10:30pm, then it's a mere hop, skip and 550km home.

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While I do intend to get a couple of runs in while we're on the road, I'll largely be out of the endurance space until we return on July 8th, so don't expect a blog post next week. I'll be back on the second Friday in July with tales from the road, which will hopefully include good weather and even better memories!