Purple Poem

We devoted today to buying a bike for Lee and visiting the Art Museum on Cleveland. We found a suitable bike at Century Cycles in Medina.
Later we met Lee's sister-in-law Kathy at her house, and she went to the museum with us. Afterward we went to her house for dinner and to watch some of the Olympics.




We have been trying to get Lee a women's model of the Townie 21 Commuter that we got for Ken when we were in Muskegon. That bike comes equipped with fenders, a rear rack, front shocks, and lights--including a headlight powered by a generator built into the hub of the front wheel. These strike us as fitting the kind of riding we expect to do.

We had several dealers tell us they didn't have this women's version, so we emailed the manufacturer, Electra Bicycle Company, for help. They replied with the news that this model has been discontinued. So we looked for alternatives. One dealer had said they had a women's bike called the Purple Poem in stock. It's a bright purple color with poetic phrases over much of the frame. It has gearing, tires, saddle, fenders and handlebars like the Townie 21 Commuter. It does not have the rack, lights, or shocks of the Commuter. We figured we could easily add the rack and lights, and Lee decided she could do without the shocks. So we bought it.
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More Michigan Visiting

On Monday Romaine had us over for dinner. On Tuesday we moved the trailer to Muskegon County's Blue Lake Park, just around the bend from brother Gord's cottage. This is an adequate campground but we've come to prefer campgrounds that have their campsite on the lakefront instead of next to the road. This place is popular with fishermen and boaters, who launch their boats from the public boat launch on the other side of the lake, and them beach them at the campground. Romaine met us at Gord's for dinner, bringing sloppy joes plus side dishes. On Saturday we had dinner at Gord's again. This time Gord's daughter Pam provided the dinner--grilled steaks and chicken. Also there for dinner were Pam's husband Jim and their three kids, plus Pam's brother Pat.


On the way to Blue Lake Park we picked up the bicycle we had bought over the phone--an Electra Townie 21 Commuter. Then on Thursday we sold our old bikes to a bike shop in Grand Haven. Now that we've bought one of the two new bikes we want, the old ones had to go.
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Hiking and biking

Yesterday we drove to the Nature Conservancy property a few miles west of the observatory. We hiked for a couple of hours on a trail they have set up leading from the picnic area.

Today we biked to the park's Indian Lodge and around the campground. We found out that our legs are out of shape. We haven't been biking as much as we would like. Finished the day by driving into Fort Davis to pick up mail being forwarded by the Escapees mail service.

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