The parks and roadside rests in rural Michigan almost all had bathrooms or at least porta pottys. This is much appreciated by the bicycle traveler. This one was in good order and had the funniest thing written on the wall.
I ate my lunch and enjoyed a cup of coffee and a pastry at a picnic table with a view of the biggest splash park I have ever seen. Every five or ten minutes the little fountains of water would turn off and a ring of monster fountains would spray for a few minutes.
My next stop was Warren Sand Dunes State Park it had some gargantuan dunes! Try to find the 7 people and 1 Bigfoot in the picture below and you will get an appreciation of how big that dune is.
There was also an excellent swimming beach that I took advantage of at Warren Sand Dunes.
When I made it to New Buffalo, MI I happened into a Farmer’s Market and picked up some tomatoes and peaches. Then I went to church, Beer Church that is, for an early dinner. If all churches served great beer and marvelous wood fired pizza, I would get to church more often. Can I get an Amen!
As I was getting near Long Beach the Canadian wildfire smoke was making a reappearance. It gave everything a slight misty quality.
Those farmers market tomatoes made an exquisite tomato salad to go with my Sister in law’s superb sourdough bread for late dinner.
I had made it! Even a day early, before my wife would arrive at her sister’s house in Long Beach. I covered 2,530.6 miles from Glacier National Park to Long Beach, Indiana in 38 days averaging 66.6 miles a day with no days off!
And one thing I wasn’t anticipating was I crossed back into the Central Time Zone when I crossed the border into Indiana. You’re supposed to be going East Carl!
Slow and Steady 
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