Bike journal w/ pics up from my summer tour to the UP

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Permalink Reply by Bob Kastigar on September 9, 2009 at 10:57am

I've ridden Rt 2 twice, from Chicago but I'm attracted to the area you took - maybe I'll do that next time.

I suspect the wider shoulders over the area are to aid in snow plowing. I don't think we'd bike up there in the winter, but they could plow the snow off the road and as it kept piling up it would get closer and closer to the actual driving parts. Having a wider area gives them a little hedge.

My trips around the Lake Michigan:
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/LakeMichigan
and
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/LakeMichigan2007

Great area for touring, the entire Upper Peninsula of Michigan!

Permalink Reply by Jim Moffitt on September 9, 2009 at 12:02pm

Great Journal, Thanks.! Would your route be available in GPS format? I would love to see a detail of the actual roads you used. Thanks Again.

Permalink Reply by pistola on September 9, 2009 at 1:09pm

Actually, that may be possible. I used the gps for the majority of the trip so it recorded all track infomation. I would have to do some editing to connect the tracks, but the data is there. I'll post once that's all done, then I can possibly email you the data file.