Tired

Long day and 57 miles to Whitehall, MI.  Although there were fewer hills, the legs let us know... ouch.  As Mary Jean reminded us...  Life has hills too.  Put our heads down and peddle.  We will make it and find gratitude on the other side.  And we did.

Charlie hit a mental wall today.  We talked how these days would come to all of us.  These are long days for us.  After some tears, fluids and nutrition amongst the pines of the Fred Meijer Trail, he climbed that wall.  All the "I can'ts" faded into a tired "git'r done".  What a trooper.

By the way, the Meijer trail was awesome.  Smooth and fast.  We are tired, sunburned a bit and sore.  But, in the morning we are looking forward to another tree lined "rails to trails" path called the Hart Montague Trail.  Substantially longer than the Meijer trail and as the name implies runs from Montague to Hart, MI.  Can't wait.

We had a nice lunch in Grand Haven.  We also are talking to more strangers along the way.  Very nice to get out of our box.