One mile at a time...: Day 9

I am sitting in a McDonald's in Ironwood after another day of 62 miles. Why McDonald's? Free wifi! My campground tonight doesn't have wifi so this seemed like a good option. Today wasn't as hard as yesterday but definitely tested my legs again. The first ten miles of the ride were table-top flat and I had to remind myself what it was like to ride on flat terrain. It has honestly been since my third day of riding from Grand Marais out about 15 miles since I rode more than a few miles of flat terrain. Once those ten glorious miles were up I had about 18 miles of gradual uphill. Flat to rolling the rest of the way except for the last ten miles which had some big uphills. There was really no downhills today compared to the first two. Yesterday and Friday I ended up around the same elevation as my start. Today I am about 900 feet up. I think I am mostly done with major hills but I have been wrong before!

Six days of riding done and three more to go. However, the big days are done. I have 48, 33 and 45 miles left. Not bad compared to the average of 60 the last three. I also bid farewell to the state of Michigan tomorrow and cross over into Wisconsin pretty much as soon as I get out of town tomorrow morning. I am looking forward to finding some Spotted Cow beer once I get into Wisconsin (only sold there...Bryan and Angie brought some back last year from the Wisconsin game and it was excellent) and getting closer to my final destination. Pretty good feeling to have a lot of the miles behind me.

Pictures from the day:

This skunk and I had a 30 second standoff. He wouldn't get out of the road and just stood there looking at me with his tail up. I gave him about 20 yards of space and he finally left. I guess if he had sprayed me I wouldn't have had to worry about people near my campsite tonight.