Day 31: Milwaukee to Holland

It was a different day today as we took a ferry across Lake Michigan.  The ferry departed at 12:30 so we had a later breakfast before some of us took a trip on the bikes to Ben's Cycles in downtown Milwaukee to buy a few bits (disappointingly, no discount was offered to me).  After that we had time for a coffee stop before making our way over to the ferry port.  The crossing took about two and half hours and brought us in to Muskegon, Michigan, the tenth state of the trip. On the way we crossed into the forth and final time zone of Eastern (GMT -5).  Once we disembarked we had a short 37 mile ride to our rather fancy hotel in the town of Holland.  Since it was a short day's ride we were able to ride together as a big group again which was nice.  As a result of the late start and time change we didn't arrive at the hotel until 18:30 but there was pizza and salad ready for us when we arrived so were able to quickly refuel before setting about our evening routines. Tomorrow is the first of six consecutive century rides, fingers crossed the weather remains as nice as it has been the last few days.

Ride Details

Cool shop

Sybil and Will next to the important cargo

Ferry parallel parking

On the upper deck with Milwaukee skyline in the background