We left Ashland with great bicycling conditions; not quite as hot as the 4th and a little overcast, the wind helping us a little. We traveled along the lake, which was flat riding, and then went up hill and away from the lake traveling east with big rolling hills. We came across a bicyclist from Huntington Beach, California who is riding, his poster says, for cancer. He has a .org web site. He says he left four and a half months ago with a lot of faith and only $20.00 in his pocket. His equipment looks pretty poor to us, his 2 wheel trailer has tires almost warn out, he lives on donated food, mostly canned, he says. It looks like he lives on a shoestring. He says he was in the Ashland parade yesterday and has had quite a lot of press time. He’s planning on being gone on his trip for a year. Interesting guy. When we got to Wakefield we had only gone 50 miles, and since the wind was with us, we decided to press on. The next town was Meetswater, Michigan, 40 more miles, another 3 hours at least. We were pretty tired when we arrived, checked into the only motel option in town, the casino. They gave us $10.00 coupons to try to get us to gamble, maybe we’ll be lucky.
Greg