Day 23: Rest day

We bid goodbye to Wisconsin and said hello to Michigan today without a single pedal stroke, the first day without riding in three weeks.

We had a leisurely morning in Manitowoc WI. The mouth of the Manitowoc river has a major grain elevator complex which Paul researched to find that it was a malt-making plant. Although the Budweiser brand was on the building, it is an independent company that makes malt, we assume it supplies all those craft breweries in this part of the country. This large tower is involved in unloading grain from barges somehow:

Looking back into Manitowok from the deck of the Badger ferry just before it set sail at 2PM.

View across the lake after setting sail:


This boat moves at about the same speed we do on the bicycles, but it creates a bigger wake as you can see in this short movie:

You can tell that Courtney and Mike are in our group from those tan lines on the legs


Paul catches some flies:

Out of sight of all land

Land Ho! The Michigan side comes into view. This coast presents huge sand dunes to the lake:

Everyone wakes up as we approach the port. I found it interesting that the clouds formed only over the land. My guess is the lake is cool so no updraft.

 This ferry only has a ramp on the stern, so it has to turn around and back into the slip (center):

After getting driven to the motel we received a nice visit from my co-worker Cody who works remotely for Ericsson as I do. He and his walking one-and-only transported Paul and I to a pub in the cool part of Ludington for a satisfying dinner that I couldn't finish in one go. I guess it was a bit of rest day for the calorie consumption too.