Saturday, August 23, 2014

Our last day!  We got to ride through refinery and power plant areas to get to Toledo, which is almost next to our Maumee SP, and took the Craig Bridge street bridge across the Maumee river.  The bike section was posted as closed, but we tried it out anyway and it was fine.  And it really beat having to ride on the metal grating that the car lanes had.  We breezed past downtown Toledo (but not on purpose...), but a few miles North of the bridge we happened across a little cafe and bakery that had fresh-baked sweets, breakfast sandwiches and good coffee, so we had all of that.  Talked to a couple of guys that were there and got a few hints on how to get around some of the construction that was going on.  Bottom line there is that we really enjoyed our last breakfast on the road.  We took off from there and took another chance with a road closed, this time for railroad crossing work.  We had to actually wait for a train at the crossing, and when it was through we were able to muscle our our loaded bikes across the work area (yes, we have pictures).  After a quick bio stop at McDonald's, we struck out for the Fermi II Nuke, after which we were to meet Brian's cousin at Michigan's Sterling State Park, for the ride back to his place in Superior Township.  We didn't quite make it to the nuke, unfortunately, but we did see it from the Interstate on the ride back.

We are now loading up the car with bikes and gear, and will be home early this evening.  We are looking forward to that!

Total miles today was 39.

I hope to put a video and/or slide show together for this trip.  I'll post it when I do.

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