Day 7 Charlevoix to Traverse City - 52 miles - 281 total

We enjoyed our night at the cabin. It felt like fall because we had all of the windows open and it was cool. We got up, took our showers and were headed out for breakfast by 8:00AM. We stopped at a nice restaurant overlooking the harbor in Charlevoix. The food was very good, I had a bacon and cheddar cheese omlet and lots of coffee. We were back on the road by 9:30. We were on Rt 31 which had a lot of traffic for a Sunday morning so we took the Bike route when it branched off Rt31. Now the traffic was light and we could enjoy the ride through rolling hills  and mostly farmland.

Nice morning ride!

We Continued along the rt 31 bypass route until we came out again on Rte 31. We were riding along without too many problems as we had a pretty good berm to ride.The only problem we had was the wind was out of the South which again meant we were riding into a headwind! You can see the flag blowing against us.

Another Head wind!

 We were making good time when a biker came up behind us and told us to again get off Rt31 and onto Barnes road. He said it was a bit of a climb out of the valley but it would be better than Rt31. The berm Gave out so we made the turn. The route took us along Torch Lake. We saw some beautiful homes along the way.

Nice house

We eventually turned back to Rte 31. We had  really tough climb to get back up to the road towards Rte 31. We began to See the cherry orchards that we had heard about.

Cherry Orchard

We eventually came to the town Of  Kewaden and stopped for lunch in a little biker bar! There was no one in the place except the bartender/cook. We ordered chicken sandwichs and they were very good. Much better than we expected. He told us that the bar was made in the 1880's and put into this bar in 1930. It is made from maple and is very beautiful.

1880's maple bar

We rode along coming again to Rte 31. Just as we got to the Intersection, a biker came along and told us about a trail that would bypass all the traffic on Rte 31. We took it and were very glad we did. We found the motel 6 and saw another motel next door. Turned out that Motel 6 had bought it and were re-modeling it. It was $25 cheaper than the motel 6 and we have a lot more space!

Doing laundry and then dinner. See you tomorrow.