Traveling south from Mackinaw City along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan we passed Wilderness Park with it’s sand dunes and then followed part of M-119, the tunnel of trees heritage road. The road was very narrow with no center line and passed grand stately homes. We stopped for lunch at Good Hart and met some vacationers, Jack, Darcy, and Madison from Ann Arbor. They were riding bicycles while staying in the area. When we got to Bay City we stopped to try and figure out where to get on a bicycle path when another bicyclist stopped to see if we needed help. Bill has been spending summers in this area since 1940, he said. He told us to follow him and he’d lead us to the bike trail. He described camping along the beach in areas now occupied by houses, and how the area has grown. It was great riding a couple of miles with Bill, he could really pedal. We continued riding to Boyne City where we were planning on staying, but no motel room was available. So we rode another 5 miles to a Michigan State campground for the night. 75 miles today.
Greg