I'm a bit embarrassed to write today's journal entry.  It was 59 degrees with a 15 mph wind from the east this morning and the weather was just not calling us to ride.  It was telling us that we had a warm, cozy hotel room we should be enjoying.  But we said we were here to ride and we ride we were going to do.  About noon, we set out on a short 20 mile loop to the northwest.  

Just down the street from our hotel is the renovated and relocated 1896 lighthouse.  As has been par for the course on our tour so far, it was closed.

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We were feeling pretty good at this point.  It really wasn't chilly and the wind was behind us.  We rode across a drawbridge and out a little lakefront peninsula. 

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 After we had ridden 6 miles with a wonderful tailwind, Kerry said he really didn't want to ride out to our turn around point and have to face 10 miles back into the wind.  So we turned around there and worked hard enough getting back that we didn't feel very guilty about riding only 12 miles.  It was cool coming back at the drawbridge when the tender, who had just sounded the whistle, came out and motioned for us to go on across before he opened the bridge.  We've had cars wait for us, but I think this was the first boat.

We stopped for smoked fish at a seafood market and some lunch and dinner food at a deli and were back in our room by 2:30. And that's my mildly embarrassing story of our 12 mile day.