I’ve stopped in Middleville, just a little ways into Barry County, because… Why not? It’s a classic small town that time has pretty much forgotten about, with a struggling Main Street retail block just east of the dam, where a small park has been established. It’s Stagecoach Park, on account of the restored 1800s stagecoach parked there.
The weather’s been OK: mostly cloudy and cool. No rain or real threat of it…yet. I had to take a long detour on the way out of GR, but it ran pretty much parallel to the road I wanted, so no harm. Traffic’s been light and mostly courteous.