Day 4 Final day
I awoke refreshed with one of the best sleeps of the trip. The hotel had some really good Apple Cider donuts for breakfast. A bad thunderstorm had rolled in overnight and moistened everything up.
After topping off the tank I made my way back to the track.
The road started quite wide but I crossed paths with a large road grader pushing a berm of mud smoothing the road.
The amount of green brilliance in this forest was visually stunning. I couldn't help but gaze out the side windows inhaling the fresh scented air.
As the trip progressed it seemed it first started in the plains, moved in with a deciduous forest then went to a almost completely Spruce forest but here at the top it was everything wooded. I even started to notice my favorite paper bark Birch trees.
I crossed a very expansive sturdy wooden bridge.
Soon the road narrowed so much the forest was rubbing on the sides of the truck.
At this point it really started to feel like I was on a offroading adventure as the trail wasn't very well traveled. A few boulders and puddles to bounce through.
The two track eventually connected to one of the major highways. There seemed to be several small lakes just like this one about every 2 miles. Looked like many great places to camp.
I noticed a waterfall was waypointed on the track a little ways off the route. So I went for it and hiked down this trail to get to it. The Mosquitos were absolutely nuts. I had changed to jeans and put a hooded rain coat on just to survive. But, it was chaos keeping them off my bare hands. I took in a deep breath and swallowed like 2 of the them. Even with my hands stuffed in my pockets they found a way in and got to feast on my hands.
Waterfall was extremely stunning and far larger then what I might have first thought. Hard to put it into scale with a photo.
Soon I was back on route headed to a diner for lunch.
The Delta Diner was unlike any other diner I've ever been to.
It was a fully restored original 1940 Silk City Diner from New york. It was modernized to meet today's building codes. The owner stood at the door way and greeted me you could tell he was just gleaming with happiness eager to meet people as they came of the trail. The lady in red would sit at your table and give a verbal menu and explain the food board for the day. She was superb the whole experience was like entering the scene on a movie set.
The food, the food was CRAZY good! Oh man best Omelet ever! Sweet peppers and stuffed with large German sausage slices, with a tangy dill sauce. It blew me away I had first expected the experience to be about the building and not so much the food. It was so good I even ordered some strawberry rhubarb pie before hitting the road and thought about coming back later.
Soon I was back on the trail. I seemed to have run into a section the woods that had burned down. The sand roads were a ton of fun through here.
I kept pushing north.
Eventually I crested a large hill and could see the end in sight, Lake Superior.
I rode through Cornucopia and out to the water.
This is where it ended for me border to border in 4 days.
However, I had to see the point of ending. So I drove the end of the track. It wound up being a dead end street up against the shore near the Indian reservation. I'm assuming the motorcycles ride down the hiking path and on to the beach for photos.
On the way out I ran across some American Indian children getting off a school bus. Their stoic Indian faces burned into my mind. I took the highway back home through Bayfield. Made it from Superior to Illinois in 5.5 hours. Hardly the same excitement and embellishment of views I received on the way up.
Trip was amazing. Very liberating and I feel changed as a result of the trip ready for the next adventure.
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