I woke up at 4:00 am to thunderstorms and tried to sleep until the alarm went off at 5:00am. I ate breakfast at the hotel at 6:00 and then heard that "Luggage Load" had been pushed back an hour in hopes that the storm would pass thru. 8:00 passed and it was still raining. At 9:00 Jeff, (who was in charge today with Mike down with the flu) made the call, we would leave in fifteen minutes. I wasn't real confident, but we started, the rain seemed to stop immediately, and within two miles I was peeling off my rain jacket because I was too hot already. Many riders reported seeing a large rainbow. We picked up a tail wind and were enjoying the rural scenery. I stopped for lunch in the village of Brown City at Mary Ann's Restaurant and had the largest Club sandwich I have ever seen. I rode hard the rest of the day, because I had guests arriving and I didn't know when they were showing up. The wind kept pushing and I tried to keep up with it. We caught a glimpse of Lake Huron about ten miles north of Port Huron and then rode along the lake front road until we were in town. I got cleaned up and the my brother Rick, his wife Pam, and my daughter Shannon showed up at the hotel, we talked for a while and then we attended the "Map meeting" for the next day's ride. Then I was treated to a restaurant with (what we say on the ride) no pictures on the menu. We went to the Quay Street Brewing Company in Port Huron. I had Chicken Parmesan and Shannon had Fish and Chips. On the way out I spotted a group of our riders jumping in a cab after celebrating Polly's sixty-second birthday. It was great to see part of real family after spending six weeks with my new trip family.
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