Friday September 17. Got up really early (at 4:30) in order to have some of the continental breakfast and then ride over to the ferry in the dark. They loaded all the cars and put the six bikers on the back of the ferry. One of the ferry workers came over and told me to tie down the bike! I had no idea how to do that, but luckily the other guys had done this before and gave me a hand. By the time we had them all tied down, the boat was underway and really moving. Apparently it used to be the world's fastest car ferry. After that I headed up to the seating area. It was inside and pretty boring, but I could see through the window that the sun was about to come up. So I went up on the top deck to get a view. It was very windy and cold as well. I sat up there by myself for an hour and watched the sun rise. At one point you could see the sun in the east reflecting off the windows of the high rises in Milwaukee in the west, very cool. After awhile we actually got out far enough that you couldn't see land anywhere.
When we got to the other side and the ferry slowed down, other people came up. A lady started talking to me and told me how she was driving her daughter to university in Ohio. I asked where they were coming from and she said Alaska!! They done it in a week... in the rain!
Once the ferry docked, I found the interstate leading out of Muskegon. It heads south east across Michagan to Detroit. On a lark, I decided to stay on it and ride south around Lake Erie to enter Canada at Port Erie, instead of Sarnia. So around I went. Eventually I got to the Allegeny State Park area and rode through some nice hilly country roads before finding a motel in Ellicotville New York. Tired, I bedded down quickly.
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