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Wow, that was a day! Beginnings can be rough and today kinda was.
First, I kinda downplayed my bike ride from the train station last night. It was only 3.5 miles but it was thru a steady rain. The cool part was the hotel was by a huge bridge heading over to Canada that looked super dramatic at night.
But the not so cool part was waking up with soaked shoes. After employing some small hotel garbage can liners over my socks, it was off to Lake Huron where a very nice lake-gazer relented to my picture request.
And then I was off! It was dreary but dry for the first half of the day. It enabled me to take in some local sights like this creepy mannequin on a roadside gate.
Then, perhaps ironically, as I pulled into Richmond Michigan is started pouring.
The semi-bright side of that was Richmond was the beginning of the Macon Orchard Rail Trail, a nice flat, peaceful ride, traffic free even if it was very damp.
A highlight of this trail was a bike bridge that had a barn facsimile on the top. Not sure why they chose that motif but it made for a cool bridge!
I eventually pulled into Romeo, quite a hopping little town. Sadly, I couldn’t find a nearby companion city named Juliet. 38 miles down – just 260 to go!
On this, my first day of biking, it seems fitting to feature “If You Should Hear a Honey Guide.” It was April’s first book so also a beginning for her. Written in the second person, April made this particularly appealing to children by writing it in the second person, essentially making the listener a character.
This was a favorite at our house when our girls were little and I think it gave us a little extra cache with the kids when we said we knew the person who wrote the book.
April has talked about how many times her first book was rejected, a hard thing to persevere through. I was thinking about that (and her) as I was trudging through the rain today.
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