Maidei goes on a world tour-Part 1 of the Bicycle Mystery Tour

[Trek-chick]

Well, we had a great vacaton in Michagan's UP. We saw tons of wildlife...2 black bears, an Elk, eagles, and ospreys to name a few. Maidei had lots of fun mountain biking through the Seney National Wildlife Refuge.

I need to get totally unpacked and go through my photos. We took over 300 so, I will go through them and post some up on Monday.

Catrin, I will get Maidei organized and sent out Monday as well....please PM me you address.

[Melalvai]

She's so cute on the trainer. I miss her!

[Trek-chick]

Well, I actually do not have any pictures of maidei from our vacation. We lost one camera card that had over 100 pictures on it I hope to find it stuffed in a pocket or somewhere but, I looked everywhere this weekend and can not find the maidei photos

I do have other pictures I can post. Maidei made a friend when we were there...a barred owl that we named Barry. He is in some of the photos. We even saw a barred owl one night on the trip.

The trip was awesome and DH and I mountain biked every other day in the Refuge, and we took a side trip to Grand Island-- and circumnavigated the entire Island by bike. It was a blast!!! Maidei loved it. She and Barry are cycling buddies now so, he will go in the box to her next destination.

Here are the photos from the Refuge...



Here's Barry


...time to hit the trails.






We drove to Marquette (the UP's largest city) one day and I had to get a photo of their cool bike racks around the city--they had several like this one...

[Trek-chick]

Next stop Grand Island

The views and cliffs are stunning here. We did the 26 miles around the island in about 2.5-3 hours with stops. Lots of kayakers around the Island too. Also, it is close to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore--kayaker paradise We did a boat tour of the pictured rocks but, the weather was not the greatest and we had to turn around half-way through. I think maidei got sea-sick. Lake Superior can be nasty.

Lake Superior was sooooo BLUE!!!




..on the trails/fire roads around the Island. Only a few roads can be used by cars, the rest is for cyclist and hikers--gotta love that!!




Good view of a beach area by the lake.


Barry hanging out by the lake


Barry on a bridge--ther are a bunch of kayaks in the background--hard to see though


Cliff views...

[Catrin]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing the lovely pictures!

Maidei landed back in Indianapolis today, and it was good to see all of the new additions to her traveling memorabilla! I wasn't too surprised to see that she no longer fits in her box AND she has a buddy now, how cool is that!

Thankfully her stay can be longer this time AND it isn't in the dead of winter Among other things, she is going to be helping out at a Super-D (downhill) mountain bike race next weekend!

[shootingstar]

Hope you find your camera Trek-Chick! Great adventures in humid/hot Michigan there!

We have to see Maidei's new companion in that care-box that she travels with each fellow TE cyclist in her onward journey with Catrin and beyond.

[Trek-chick]

Thanks, that is the problem with bringing two cameras i guess but, one is really nice and just too heavy to tote around. thankfully i did not lose that one.