Day 33: Bicycling Across America – Gladwin, MI

Port on the edge of Torch Lake.

I said goodbye to Lake Michigan this morning and decided to start heading across the state toward Lake Saint Claire and Ontario. I used Komoot to calculate a route, not taking into account that I had to eat sometime during the day. So, after about 60 miles and getting hungry, I had to alter my route to actually head for a real town and so had nothing but candy bars until about the 80 mile mark. Oops! I ended up in a campground where I had to negotiate about 2 miles of often soft sand to get to it. My bike did not like that at all but now I’m all settled into camp. Phew, 103 miles today.

My skinny road tires do not like this sign
You’re riding along a nice hard packed dirt road, then suddenly all hell breaks loose and you pray that you can get your shoes out of their cleats before you go down.
Tent site at House Lake State Forest Campground