60 miles. Yale is the Bologna capital of the US!

After our Bavarian adventure last night, we awoke and were on the road by 7:15 heading mostly east. There was a small but helpful tailwind that made the pedaling easier but, since our air speed with tailwind is less than our ground speed, it often feels warmer than the temperature would indicate.

We found a 7 mile rail to trail path that got us off the roads for a bit but then were back on the narrow shoulder of Bike Route 20. One would expect a designated bike route to be more favorable for cycling (bike lane or wide shoulder) but that hasn’t been true. For most of the route, bikes must negotiate a narrow and often degraded shoulder with cracks, potholes and loose sections of pavement.

We arrived in Yale to discover that tomorrow begins their annual Bologna Festival — and we’ll miss it! We meet up with our friends outside Detroit tomorrow for a little R and R and a tour of the Affleck House — a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian in Bloomfield Hills, MI.