Sun 18 July: Ashland WI to Grand Marais MN

We’re following the shoreline of Lake Superior. We travelled from Ashland along the south shore to Duluth. At least we attempted to – yet another road closure frustrated our attempt to visit picturesque Bayfield. Continue reading

Saturday’s Pictures

While we’re waiting for the rain to clear, with the promise of a fine day ahead, I thought I’d post a few of the pictures from yesterday. Forest roads are nicer to ride through than to photograph, but this gives an idea of the Ottawa forest, taken at an intersection with a county road:

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Sat 17 July: Marinette WI to Ashland WI

What a great day’s ride!  It must look from the titles as though we’re entirely stuck in Wisconsin, but in fact most of today’s ride has been in Michigan, through beautiful forests.
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Friday 16 July: Elkhorn WI to Marinette WI

We’re getting to be old hands at this!  The hotel receptionist recognised us from last year.  “Hey, aren’t you the guys from England on the motorcycles?”  Well, it’s nice to be famous, no matter in how small a way.
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The Great Lakes Tour 2010

This year, our American tour is planned around the Great Lakes.  We’ll pick up the bikes from our good friends at Cycles Plus in Elkhorn WI and travel clockwise staring with the western shore of Lake Michigan, the north of Lake Superior (which will take us into Canada), continuing along the northern edge of Lake Huron, then southwards to Niagara Falls (a must see), then the southern shore of  Lake Erie, and cross country to the south east shore of Lake Michigan before returning to Elkhorn.  We won’t go around Lake Ontario, but we’ll see it, of course, at Niagara Falls.

New blog – the Bikes and the Bees

I thought that I would start a blog to document both our motorcycle tours and our beekeeping activities.  Both very different, I know, but both in their way subject to minor triumphs and disasters which are worth recording and perhaps amusing, and reasonably photogenic.