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Took a little roadtrip this weekend with Jared and Bill to the 'other side of the lake' for 2-Shores Cars & Coffee Sunday AM in Lake Mills, WI. About 1400-1500 miles roundtrip.
1. Obligatory Mackinac Bridge Photo
2. Slight Downpour Coming out of St. Ignace :eek:
3. Rain clears and time for a beer break on the north shore of Lake Michigan.
4. Bill has a close encounter with an enormous UP mosquito - complete with feathers!
5. The Route
Overnight in Iron Mountain, MI. Then on the road Sat morning to find some good twisty backroads in Northern Wisconsin.
And we did find some world-class forest twisties that were worth the drive in and of themselves!
1. The Michigan contingent.
2. Breakfast in Laona at a sterotypical northern Wisconsin eatery!
3. Lost.
4. Met up with the Wisconsin contingent for lunch.
5. Scott Z's awesome 67S doing it's very first run after restoration.
After lunch we all headed for an area full of cool roads and elevation change ... somewhere between the Mississippi and Madison.
1. In transit to the good roads :rolleyes:
2. Arriving at the good roads :D
3. Jared's 73S
4. Randy's 70S with Larry M at the wheel.
5. Randy's 914-6 2.6L sleeper, also on it's first shakedown run.
1. A pitstop after some pretty intense driving on some great roads.
2. Scott Z's 67S motor :eek:
3. The Graywolf felt like an out-of-towner after it's long stint in Cali.
4. The fun stuff.
5. Successful shakedown runs for both the newbies (this is the high-speed portion of the day's competition.)
Cool cars and pics, and this has to set a distance record for or to a coffee run.:D
And finally, Cars & Coffee Sunday morning at 2-Shores.
1. Jurgen's 66
2. 44 years of renewal stickers! :D
3. The Apollo
All the cars ran flawlessly all weekend long!
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Originally Posted by denson
Everybody understood except the wives ..... "So, you guys decided to just sort of drive over here for a 2-hour Cars & Coffee?????!!!!!" :rolleyes::D
whoa...wow...two-DAY-cars and coffee. excellent job !
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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer
. . . especially for those of us who've never been to the Upper Peninsula (or North of St Louis, for that matter :o).
What kind of MPG did you Guys get?
And any 'dirty' (car) shots to share . . . besides that, um, mosquito?
Rick Kreiskott
I really didn't get many photos Rick. The good stuff in the UP is way up in the Keweenau Peninsula, another 3 hours north (see 1st photo from a different road trip last year).
Pic #2: My favorite find by far was County Road Q (near Rolling Stone Lake in Northern WI). Narrow, excellent asphalt, rolling elevation changes and several miles long thru the forest. No houses, no traffic! Mostly 3rd gear so very fast. I could have run that road all day long. We only scratched the surface of what is available in that area!