I woke up in the morning and it wasn’t raining. At least not yet. Not raining in the morning is a huge deal for me. It allowes me to pack away my tent dry. I keep it in a dry bag so it is guaranteed to stay dry that way, no matter even if it starts raining later on in the day.
I am off early this morning. I want to try to get some miles in in case it does rain this morning. As the fates would have it, it started raining within 15 minutes of my start. It rained pretty hard for 30 minutes so I stopped in a donut shop to warm up. And had a donut of course.
The rain stopped during my rest at the donut shop so after a while I set out again. It continued to sprinkle rain every now and then. Not to the point where I wanted to stop though. It was just a little annoying since I was always worrying if it was going to intensify at any time.
I stopped at one last Wisconsin tavern for lunch and had one last Spotted Cow beer. They do not sell it outside of the state.
After lunch, I hit the Michigan border within 2 miles.
And equally important, I am in the U-P! (Also known as the Upper Peninsula).
With the constant threat of rain, I am just riding from town to town and then reevaluating whether to ride to the next town or to hunker down. First I rode to Delma. I decided to carry on to Iron River. At Iron River it began raining again in ernest. I found out about a place to stay in case it continued raining at Chicaugon Lake that was about 16 miles away so I decided to ride on. I figured that even if the rain continued I could get a hot shower there since it was going to be a motel room today instead of camping. Sure enough, it was still raining and even intensified at that point so the motel room it was. And a good decision it turns out since it continued to rain until about 7:00.
Tomorrow, it is supposed to be overcast, but no rain. We will see.