Lucille at the SOO!
September 8th
After a day and a half on the road Dorsey and I arrived at Sault STE Marie Michigan (also known locally as the SOO). If you throw a frisbee north over the Saint Mary’s River it will land in Canada. It was Dorsey’s first time in Michigan, and he said it’s a lot prettier than he thought it was going to be. But we probably don’t need to worry about him moving north as I don’t think he likes snow too much…
The sign below says, “Michigan’s Upper Peninsula”, we just crossed the Mackinaw bridge. If you look to the left while crossing the bridge you see Lake Michigan and looking right it’s Lake Huron.
Below Dorsey is gazing over the top of the enormous ship in one of the locks in Sault STE Marie. On the Saint Mary’s River. This river connects Lake Superior with Lake Huron. Looking over the top of the locks you can see Canada. Nope – we could not see Mike Podger our only Canadian member waving and wishing us good luck!
Big C is everywhere. Yep at the local burger place they had a burger named in his honor. I think even in the SOO they know about Cecil “Big C” and his success on the 2021 Cross Country Chase.
Dorsey and I got through registration and tech inspection. Notice there are two guys going over the bike. They are looking for loose spokes, fasteners, leaking gas tanks and a myriad of other things. The inspection process took about 20 minutes, but Lucille passed with flying colors.
Cole Deister (left) and Joe Sparrow (right) giving Lucille a good going over.