I can now tell people that I rode my scooter to Sturgis. Not the one in South Dakota that has a huge motorcycle rally every year, where a guy on a cute little red scooter would face certain death. The one in southern Michigan.

US-12 runs thru it, which I gather is a popular motorbike touring route (it used to be the highway from Detroit to Chicago before the interstate), so they probably get a fair number of bikers here too. Personally I’d much rather take the route I did: mostly on Southern Road, which runs irregularly parallel to the border. You have to jog north and south from time to time, just enough to keep it interesting. Little traffic, just plenty of opportunity to play Name The Crop.

Backing up, I started the day on Indiana State Road 120, which I expected to be busier than it was. It runs along I-80/90, which ordinarily would make it a perfect road, but that interstate is a toll road, so I expected lots of toll dodgers. There were some, but not too many. I could’ve taken it farther, but this is MI Way not IN Way, so I took the northern route in Michigan.

The southern rain blew over, leaving it cooler and mostly cloudy, but dry. I stopped to take off my rain gear, and did it none too soon. The rain cover for my rear rack was half off and probably would’ve blown the rest of the way off soon. The rain coming from the west looks like it might be dissipating, which would be lovely.