Mount Pleasant to Birch Run MI, July 25, Wed

We got to sleep late (sort of) 6:00 AM!  Today was suppose to be a recovery day, but, the wind didn't cooperate.  The wind whipped across the wide open farm fields of lower Michigan.  Really it wasn't to bad, the temperature was nice, the sun shined, and it was REALLY flat.  625 ft of climbing in 74 miles.  Literally the flattest day of the ride.
The town of Alma is quite picturesque.  Wide green lawns and a clean small town downtown.  Alma is home to Alma College.  A well respected small liberal arts school.

Jeff, Janel, Joel, Crist in downtown Alma

The Across America North Ride has been going on for over ten years and each year the riders had stopped to visit Sandra Reeves and her husband.  Sandra's husband has passed away, but, she keeps up the tradition of welcoming riders into her yard and home.  The picture below is of riders with one of the many tractors the Reeves family has collected over the years.  The tractor originally had steel wheels.

Rich, Sam, Janel, Diane, Lynne, Joel, Crist and Randy in front of one of the Reeves' tractors

Most of the tractors John Deere, Allis Chalmers etc are in the barns behind the trees.  More than 50 tractors in the collection.

Most of the day was riding in a pace line through the MI farmland.

Crist leading Janel, Lynne and Diane into the wind across MI farmland

We cross into Canada early Friday Morning for a short trip across southern Ontario.  London and Brantford Ontario then Niagara Falls. 
See you soon
Sam