Sometimes I know exactly where I am going. In that case it’s easy, pick a route and go.
More often I have an idea where I’d like to end up, and generally speaking a direction to go.
Once in a while I just follow the front wheel and see where it takes me.
This is way into eastern Montana, with the Bear Paw mountains in the far distance. Little did I know that this long day on the plains was going to be my last sunny day for a while. For the rest of the way I was at best in scattered showers.
This is sweet grass country. It was haying and road trimming time of year and for a couple hundred miles the smell of sweet grass filled my helmet. It was even better when it rained a little, the smell was even more intense. In all honesty, I rode quite a ways in a near meditative state just from the smell.
I don't think I have a single picture from North Dakota, a very long ways. I was now officially on the clock and it was moist most of the way.
Lake Superior. You know you have made it to Lake Country when you can see the west end of the lake.
This isn't my first look at the lake. That would have been in Duluth, Minnesota and I'd have taken a picture but the traffic and bridge construction really kept me from stopping. That and the rain. It was the first time the whole trip that I had felt chilled.
These pictures were taken in Ashland, Michigan. You leave Minnesotata cross a little corner of Michigan and get to Wisconsin in pretty short order. There is a pretty active port here (nothing compared to Duluth) and a really attractive harbor and city setting.
You know you are near the end of the lake when you can see land on the other side. It's the narrowest part of Lake Superior. This is truly big water.
You can tell for sure that it has rained recently. Connie's windscreen is clean and bug free. This is how Connie looks rigged for foul weather. Every thing that can be put in the saddlebags is. Those soft bags are mostly waterproof.
Next time we'll be in the woods with Sam. Thanks for coming along for the ride!
All words and photographs in this post are mine. For better or worse
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