Tall Ships and Halfway There.jpg

Tall Ships and Halfway There.jpg, originally uploaded by sunspotting.

Fantastic! Northcoast Harbor at Great Lakes Science Center across the harbor from the Rock Hall, with the Festival of Tall Ships. We had lunch here, and enough time to stretch our backs and shake out our legs. Once we turned around, we *really* kicked it into high gear! We left downtown sometime between 1:30 and 2, with mileage showing over 26 1/2 miles. The next time Rick and I looked at a clock was at 4:30, as our car pulled out of the parking lot at Wallace Lake, packed up with bikes riding us for a change!

But before we jump *that* far ahead, there was stuff to look at in the Harbor (see other pictures in other posts), and there were neighborhoods to crank through. To the right was one fairly treacherous one. Not because it's a bad place to get caught after dark. Loads of hazards for a person on a bike here: sand, distraction, and the heinous hill coming up immediately ahead of us. Nevermind the hazards involved if you want to actually venture into the polluted mess we call 'water', or find a syringe-free spot on the beach. But isn't it beautiful?