Our first adventure today was a bike ride on the Kal-Haven Trail, formally known as the Kal-Haven Trail Sesquicentennial State Park. It extends for 33.5 miles along the former route of the Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad. We started at the Kalamazoo trailhead and rode 9.6 miles to Kendall.
The entrance to the trail runs past this old caboose, which was earlier used as an office to sell trail passes, but those are no longer required.
The first section of the trail west of Kalamazoo is definitely downhill. We encountered a couple of downed trees across the trail, but mostly it's in pretty good condition.
After our bike ride we went to Costco and changed and shopped before going to Bronson Park in downtown Kalamazoo for another of the summer concert series. Today's group was the Verve Pipe, a rock and roll group with a very energetic stage presence. They started the concert off with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and then a group of veryr entertaining family-friendly songs for the kids (which we also enjoyed, being kids at heart....). The Verve Pipe have put out two albums of kids songs in addition to their "adult" rock and roll offerings.
The group is evidently quite popular in this area. They drew the largest crowd we have seen in Bronson Park.
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