Good Morning!  It is a windy day today.  Just like yesterday and tomorrow.  However, we will find things to do and have fun times here in Petoskey, MI.

These guys can’t read…No Public Entry!!

We are borrowing the Petoskey Marina’s bicycles today to run an errand or two.  A trip to Walgreens and a grocery store about 2.5 miles away sounds daunting by foot, but very doable by bike.  These are 1-speed bikes.  Perfect for us old folks who haven’t been on bicycles in years and years.  At least we should remember how to use the coaster brakes.  Well, maybe.

Wayne on a bike in front of me.

Trying to photograph Wayne with one hand and the other hand on the handlebar made me wander into the grass and bushes.  If anyone was watching, they would have thought I was new to bikes or drunk.  I couldn’t hold a straight line.  Always over correcting.  Jeez.  I really had to concentrate when other bikes came by us.  “Don’t look at them” I kept saying to myself so I wouldn’t steer toward them.  I had a couple of near-misses.  I finally pulled over and let them pass than try to figure out how to not steer right at them!  Glad Wayne didn’t have a camera when he was following me.

The Little Traverse Wheelway is a very nice biking trail that goes along the waterfront from Charlevoix to Harbor Springs ( 26 miles ).  The “No Teaming or Driving” along the Wheelway goes back to the time when horses and horse/buggies were driven along the same path. No, we did not see any horses today!

Little Traverse Wheelway – biking trail

We found our way to Walgreens off the wheelway and behind a couple of buildings.  See…there they are!

Bikes taking a rest from 2 Old Coots riding them Harley style

The Bikes found KFC on the way to the grocery store

You saw the backpack Wayne on his back?  Between his backpack and mine limits the amount of shopping.  A couple of heads of lettuce, cheese, sandwich fixings, and apples.  Done.  No more space.  A rather interesting way to limit your spending.  An idea to promote.  Save money, ride a bike to the grocery store!

Fish sculpture seen on the bike path

HUMOR of the day….

Wayne told me you couldn’t really see the dog silhouettes very well in my previous posting.  How about this one with Geese all around the cardboard dog?  What dog?  I don’t see no dog, do you?

This just makes me smile.  Nature knows.

How about cute?

Swallows having a conversation

Another storm comes through…..