Day 12 - Back to Duluth!

After 11 days of travel I finally made it back to Duluth. The day started off great. The breakfast that was prepared for us at the Garden House B&B was fantastic. We started off with freshly sliced fruit and a fruit smoothie and then had baked oatmeal topped with yogurt and homemade fruit preserves. That also came with homemade scones and banana bread. And if that wasn't enough, we had a very small dish of homemade ice cream for dessert.

Maybe because of the energy I had from a great breakfast, adrenaline from it being the last day or knowing I didn't have to save energy for the next day but I had the quickest start to my ride of the entire trip. Rolling terrain but I rode the first 40 miles without taking a break (except to stop and take a quick picture) in just over three hours time. The next sixteen miles however were not that fun and took over two hours. Getting back to my car through the streets of Superior and Duluth was awful. Had to ride through a few sketchy neighborhoods and some busy streets but in the end I got back! Hard to believe it is over. It went unbelievably quick.

So, eleven days if travel to make it around the lake (nine riding and two on the ferry) with 483 miles on the bike. I drove to Mason City, IA and stayed in a hotel to break up the long drive back. I am riding Thursday night with friends back home and I will put up photos if I take a few. Really happy everything went so smoothly on the trip and the bike held up great. Didn't even have to put air in the tires along the way. Here are pictures from the last day of riding.

 

 

 

 

 

I found the "welcome Canadians" line was pretty funny.

 

 

Back to Duluth....

 

 

Heading back to Omaha!