Here are some pictures from a trip to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan last month. I'm too lazy to copy/paste the ride report, it's all on my blog though (see links below)
If you have a dual-sport bike and you want to ride some amazing roads and see some amazing scenery in the Midwest, the UP is the place to go. At times it reminded me a bit of Colorado, Alaska and Idaho
Day 1: Round and round we go, where this road ends, nobody knowsThe tiles says it all
for our first day we ended up getting lost - a lot
but we got to ride a lot of good roads and learned some good lessons like #1 always bring food with you when you are riding in the middle of no where and #2 don't trust the GPS
link to text and more pictures for day 1:
http://excessivelocity.blogspot.com/2007/06/day-1-van-riper-state-park-mi.htmlDay 2: Riding Henry Ford's old roadToday's destination was 510, which used to be called M-35 back in the 1920’s, it was a road that Henry Ford started to build, which was going to cross the Huron Mountains, but the road was never finished.
Today County Road 510 starts near the Marquette-Negaunee area, the first 5 miles are paved, the next 19 miles are a well-maintained gravel road. On today’s maps 510 turns northeasterly toward Big Bay and old M-35 route continues for 3 or 4 more miles as a lower-quality road called "Blind 35. We were planning on riding to the end.
link to text and more pictures for day 2:
http://excessivelocity.blogspot.com/2007/07/day-2-van-riper-state-park-mi.html
