Its great to have a rest!

I am currently the guest of Ken and his wife Carol at Bridgman.

So far I have travelled 1700km or 1060 miles since leaving Minneapolis on Tuesday 27th May - nearly a month ago.

Since my last detail on travel I can add the following:

Saturday 21st June. Smyrna to Hastings.

77.7 Km.

Sunday 22nd June. Hastings to Paw Paw via Kalamazoo.
82.6 Km

Monday 23rd June. Paw Paw to Bridgman.

60.8 Km.


From the road map below in an earlier post you can see that after Hastings I have deviated from the direct southerly route of the Adventure Cycling Map and travelled south east tp meet up with my Whiner friends.

On Thursday 26th June I am going to take transport with Ken from Bridgman and connect with the Monroeville to Muscatine route at Rensselaer. I'll take accommodation that evening and then begin the ride to Missouri Valley arriving in readiness for the start of RAGBRAI. This will allow me time to rendezvous with my Aussie friend, Ray Taarnby in Des Moine, Iowa on 13th July. With Ken's support I am still planning my route through Iowa. (Ken spent much of his early years in Iowa.)