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7月29日 It's ain't sailing, but it was fun!Just back from 12 days of biking, hiking, and camping. After the traditional stop at Tobies for breakfast, we rode the Munger trail in Duluth. We stopped in Superior for an hour with Judy and Bill Rohde who had taken a few days off their cruise (then in L. Michigan) to attend the GLCC rendevous. Then set up the tent for the first time in Bayfield, WI. A day-long ride on Madeline Island preceded a long chat with Jim Plummer on board their boat (Bonnie was in the cities), and a brief visit with Rachel and Claus on Kyanna as they were making final preparations to begin their cruise. Then it was off to the Porcupine Mountains where we slowed down a bit and enjoyed the cool breezes off Lake Superior and the Escarpment Trail above the Lake of the Clouds.
Originally intending to move on to Escanaba, MI, to visit old haunts sailed to when we owned a Flicka almost 30 years ago, we changed our minds and drove to Copper Harbor to set up camp on the shores of Lake Fanny Hooe. We rode the shore road to Eagle Harbor, a spectacular experience. We stumbled into the Thimble Berry Jam Festival, yes, that's right. We listened to some top flight bluegrass and to a highschool big jazz band that was just back from winning second place in the Wisconsin jazz contest. We had dinner at the golf course and convention center, but the Tamarak restaurant is still the place to dine in Copper Harbor. We were now a long way from Door County,WI, so took our first motel in Hancock on the Keewanau Waterway in Houghton, MI. The leisurely drive next day was highlighted by a picnic lunch at the marina in Escanaba, one of our favorite stops when sailing Green Bay in our Flicka.
We camped for another four days in the Peninsula State Park. While there, we circumnavigated Washington Island on our bikes. Another day, we went again to the Island taking the pedestria ferry, the Karfi, over to Rock Island State Park for a long hike which meant another bike trek across Washington Island. But this day was capped by a late lunch at the Wash. Is. Hotel, which runs a cooking school. We had sandwiches of heirloom tomatoes. Oh, my!! Jim tried a wheat beer brewed at the Hotel from grain grown on the Island.
We were nearing the end of the trip and, as the forecast was for storms (which as it turned out never came), we opted for a hotel especially as we had another long day of driving ahead of us. Ellie discovered that our motel, the Pine Manor, (in Ephriam) is built on the spot of an old lodge of the same name where she had waited tables in the summer when she was in college. The bunkhouse where the help slept was still there. Ellie commented that she was perhaps the oldest returning employee of the place!
We ended our trip in Spring Green, WI, meeting Karen and Bob (Karen is Ellie's friend from her college days. They stay in our house for a few weeks each summer while we are out gallavanting). After sharing a picnic lunch we joined them for a fun production of Shaw's Misalliance in the ampitheater (Guthrie quality too!).
Having read it during the trip, Jim thinks every American should read All the Shah's Men, by Steven Kinzer. It appears to be a technically accurate (the Russians have not yet opened their files), spellbinding tale, plus a very readable summary of the massive literature on the Mosadech coup in Iran in 1953 and related history. It explains in a nutshell how we got ourselves into this mess in the Middle East. We have been botching matters for a while. There is plenty of blame to go around. Truman comes off, again, as wise, but everyone else from Churchill on through the Dulles brothers lose a little of their luster.
Finally, we arrived home at about 11:00pm and fell into our own bed leaving the car to unload and clean up for today.
Altogether, we rode bikes 25-30 miles five or six times plus additional shorter rides, we camped, tent and all, nine days and took a motel three. We were both surprised that we did that much tenting. It is a bore bending and unbending to get out of and into the tent at night for the necessary hikes to the "comfort station", but we found we were limber enough to do it. And we still enjoy sleeping in the woods with the night air wafting through the tent. (It helped that the weather was near perfect, of course. Packing up the tent in the rain would have been gruesome. And there were almost no black flies.) We did breakfast out of the cooler, and lunch too most days, eating out for dinner, a pampering treat we allowed ourselves.
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