Day 5 - Thunder Bay, Ontario to Ironwood, MI

We woke up this morning to a slight drizzle, but by the time we were ready to roll it had cleared up and the rest of our day was rain free. We hit the road and made a visit to the Thunder Bay Harley Davidson dealer to see if there were any goodies we might need and to pick up a shirt for a friend in Ohio. Steve found a pirate-like "do-rag" to go with the pirate shirt he was wearing and we figured that was a good tribute to that cute little boy on the ferry :) After shopping, we rode about 30 miles down the road to the US/Canadian border and entered the United States...home sweet home. No more converting kilometers and liters to miles and gallons. Woohoo! We also noticed that the Moose Danger signs changed to Deer Danger signs and several of them had red rudolph noses, he he he. So we spent the rest of our day riding down through Minnesota along Lake Superior. We stopped for some nice overlook viewpoints and to check out the Split Rock Lighthouse which was pretty cool. We climbed up to the top and got to see the huge light, and we also heard them blow the two big fog horns. We zipped down to Duluth, which had some beautiful, huge houses, and then rounded the corner of the lake and headed East in to Wisconsin. Steve found this nice route that took us up by the Apostle Islands which was a real treat. The sun came out for the entire ride and we had the road pretty much to ourselves, though we did have to share it with several deer. We stopped for a break in Bayfield, a small harbor town that has a ferry that runs people out to one of the Apostle Islands. At that point we only had a few more hours of sunlight, so we headed down the road to Ashland for some dinner before continuing on to the cabin. We had been given good directions and Steve had the address in "Sally", his gps unit, but it was tricky trying to read mailboxes and addresses at dusk on a forest lined road. Steve found it though, and we are all settled in. What a beautiful place it is, too. Right on Lake Superior and all the comforts of home. I have one sunset picture from the deck but that's all I could get before the sun went down. Alas, no wi-fi connections in the area as we suspected. So you'll be reading this update a day late.

Update: The next morning we just found wi-fi at our breakfast spot, the Breakwater Cafe. Yippee! Click here for pictures from the day.

Update #2 - The eldest biker would like to give a shout out to Kris, whom we bought the shirt for, and Sandy (his lovely wife) and Denise, who are both light house fans.