I don’t know why, but here’s a 1920’s / 1930’s manure spreader parked next to someone’s driveway, just off the road.
Notice the tire treads bolted to the steel wheels.
It is not unusual for two designated routes (highway or bikeway) with differencing compass directions to share the same pavement. Below on the left USBR 20 East, which heads across Michigan and continues into Canada, shares the pavement with USBR 35 North, which continues into the Upper Peninsula.
Below on the right is a stretch near Waynesburg, Ohio, that I rode on a previous trip to Washington, DC. If you were in the white truck travelling on 43, you would be heading south, while if you were in the blue minivan travelling on 183 you would be heading north. Either driver could change his direction of travel without turning around simply by mentally deciding to change the route he is following.
Here a mid-1960’s Oliver 1650 that’s in great shape. I texted the picture to a part-time farmer that I work with, and he suggested that I buy the tractor, put my bike in the bucket in front, and drive home.
(We both know that the tires would be worn down to the steel rims before I even got to Detroit.)
Another former dairy farm, with the silo still standing, is now a horse farm.
A view of Lake Michigan taken at a roadside stop just north of Manistee.
I think a comma or a semicolon is missing. If we can’t blame you for voting for Trump, who should we blame?
Google characterized the last 10 miles from Onekama to Arcadia as being “mostly flat”. It actually was mostly flat, and it even had a nice downhill run, after the initial 325′ climb.
I don’t like to walk my bike, but I did some up-hill bike walking on this afternoon.
Fortunately, it was a humid but cooler, cloudy day, and I don’t think it even hit 80°. But by 4 PM a fog had covered the area and oncoming traffic had their headlights on. I had to stop put it on my rear flashers as I was concerned about being hit by traffic approaching from behind.
Here’s a view looking south from Arcadia.
One way to update a 1960’s motel is to rename it a resort
It turns out that while I was sleeping peacefully in Arcadia, back in Cleveland they were having a severe rainstorm. Here’s a view of a flooded I-90 underpass in Lakewood, a Cleveland suburb.
“Not once did I imagine we’d need to call the swift-water team to I-90 to conduct a rescue,” Assistant Fire Chief Nicholas Sambula said. “When the call first came in, I thought it would be a typical stranded motorist at the dip near West 117th Street. “As we entered the Alger Road onramp going westbound on I-90, traffic was completely stopped. Then as we got closer, we saw 5 or 6 feet of water toward the low-speed lanes. It was high — halfway up the Jersey barrier — on the high-speed side toward the middle of the highway. “I was astonished. I couldn’t believe it.” – Cleveland.com
Apparently they had never seen anything like this in the Cleveland area. I still haven’t.