Day 8

We've covered 1940 miles since we left Madison on Monday.

We covered 293 miles today, a pretty full day.
We got an early start and was going to visit a local McDonalds so I could upload my photos. Unfortunately, there was a large power outage on the west side of town so we decided to head on north to Copper Harbor. As we rode north of Houghton we passed a large copper mine that is now shut down. The shaft to the mine is over a mile deep. As we neared Calumet we observed a mean looking storm moving across the peninsula north of us so we stopped at a roadside park and ate our stash of nuts and bananas. After about a half hour wait we got back on the road to Copper Harbor. The roads were still wet when we arrived at Copper Harbor but dried out on the way down along the coast. Fog was hanging off the coast and it was cold along this whole stretch, but at least a bright sun was with us most of the way. We had a close call on gas here. There are no stations north of a place called Phoenix, and they only had regular(87) but I had no choose. I put one gallon in, enough to get me back to Houghton.
We retraced our way back to Houghton - where the power was now back on -then started down the lower western side on Ontonagon and Silver City, both little harbor towns. To complete the loop we rode into Ashland and through the intersection where we started a week earlier. We are going to try and get an early start towards Madison tomorrow and try to beat as much heat as we can. Madison is seeing heat indices of 100+ . It's sure to be a tough ride.