Solid tires with added lightness

Ran across this interesting combination cherry-picker / payloader today in Brooklyn, the cool thing were the non-inflatable tires. I like the added lightness (and probably compliance) of all of the holes in the tires. Also, somebody left their keys on one of them.

Day ... um ... July 26th! Cortland NY to Brooklyn NY via the Catskills

Somehow our 300mi drive today took 9hrs. Not sure why, but we are now safely in Brooklyn.

Not Brooklyn

Eagle River MI -> Marquette MI -> Manitowoc WI -> Mt. Pleasant MI -> London ON

A few days on the way to NYC.
Eagle River MI: left Monday evening, beautiful day (80F)
Marquette MI: bit of rain in the morning, decided to head south to visit my aunt in Wisconsin
Manitowoc WI: took S.S. Badger across Lake Michigan to Ludington MI. It used to carry rail cars to avoid the long turn around the southern end of the lake. 4hrs on the ship, it ingested about 100 cars and 4 semi-trucks, one of which had been transporting livestock and the smells reminded us of that the whole trip. Nobody fell overboard.
Mt. Pleasant MI: about 100mi in from Ludington after the ferry, through the Manistee Forest, lots of basketball players.
London ON: border crossing at Sarnia was uneventful, lots of trucks queued up, short line for passenger cars. Super nice houses north of Detroit along Lake Huron coast, we drove Hwy 25 for a bit.

Some final iron moths and other signs of the north

Iron Moths from Copper Harbor and Hancock

This is probably the most rusty truck I've ever seen. The owner says that it is his third Toyota and they've all rusted out in similar ways, he just drives them until the frame breaks.

This shot is from an old Dodge at the car show in Copper Harbor this weekend. The rest of the car was similarly oxidized.

1984 Paris-Dakar, the Rothmans Porsches

Last rays

Snake #2

A slightly larger garter snake

Iron Moths in Upper Michigan

Trail runs and turtle

Double trail run today, hill climb in the morning, 12km in the evening, not sure if I'm going to be able to complete the third leg which is a 25km tomorrow.

View from Mt. Lookout (a.k.a. Mt. Baldy)

Western Painted Turtle laying eggs

First snake and hiking for cookies

BMW 2002 cruising around MI

An average 9:30pm run on the beach in northern Michigan

Also, as the boys were playing in the water, we noticed a deer slowly loping towards us, in the water, parallel to the beach, and weirdly discolored. It approached for quite awhile, then finally noticed us, stopped, went back a bit, then turned directly toward the forest and ran in. We walked to the entry point, following its footsteps, and noticed a fairly significant spattering of blood with each step along the path. We are not sure what happened to it, perhaps a wolf attack (they crossed the ice this winter from Canada when the lake froze over), but we then realized that the discoloration on the hide was most likely large smears of blood.

July 04th fish toss

Yes, this is the 2nd place finisher in the under-12 division of the annual Fourth of July Fish Toss in Gay MI. 41 feet to be exact. With a blindfold. Winner was at 43' and was nervously pacing near us, muttering to herself "I'm done for. I'm gone. This girl's got an arm!"

Day 10: Eagle River MI, a day of no driving

I lied slightly, I did move the van in the driveway a bit. Birthday for Anton and Aunt Ginny, sand, beach, sauna, and some work. Goal with Andrei is to find agates, where to look?

Day 9: Ashland WI to Eagle River MI via lots of trees

The final day, not huge (180mi or so), nice relaxed start, swimming in the morning, drive through a few nice towns on Lake Superior, then up north M28->M45->M26->US41->M26->home. Note the presence of M26 twice there, it takes a much more circuitous route through the upper peninsula than US41.

Some stats for the trip are below. Note that the html composer screwed up the formatting, so I'll fix it later.

Total miles: 2749mi
Total fuel: 109.6gal (assuming 25mpg for the last leg)
Avg mpg: 25mpg

Date	City	State	Mileage	Temp	Cond	Cost	Fuel	MPG	Trip	word
Mon Jun 23	Piedmont	CA	176350	75F	sunny					home
Tue Jun 24	Chico	CA	176512	86F	sunny	$58.29	14.4gal		305.9	hot
Tue Jun 24	Montgomery Creek	CA	176627	83F	sunny					uphill
Tue Jun 24	Lava Beds	CA	176760	75F	sunny, windy					bats
Wed Jun 25	Klamath Falls	OR	176804	61F	part cldy	$52.91	12.9gal		292.7	cows
Wed Jun 25	Crater Lake	OR	176862	43F	rainy					snow
Thu Jun 26	Bend	OR	176983	57F	rainy					ducks
Thu Jun 26	Grass Valley	OR	177091	69F	sunny					horses
Thu Jun 26	Biggs	OR	177118	77F	sunny	$51.52	12.7gal		313.7	teenagers
Thu Jun 26	Kennewick	WA	177224	78F	sunny
Fri Jun 27	Spokane	WA	177374	67F	cloudy	$46.31	10gal		255	hoops
Fri Jun 27	Albeni Falls Dam	ID	177417	60F	cloudy					snake
Fri Jun 27	Kootenai Falls	MT	177518	69F	part cldy				143.7	bridge
Sat Jun 28	Kalispell	MT	177624	61F	cloudy	$37.64	9.4gal		249.8	salmon
Sat Jun 28	West Glacier	MT	177678	50F	rainy				53.7	rapids
Sat Jun 28	Shelby	MT	177818	63F	sunny, windy				193.8	rabbit
Sun Jun 29	Malta	MT	177909	69F	clear	$63.25	15.6gal		385	downtown
Sun Jun 29	Wolf Point	MT	178144	75F	part cldy				135	Missouri

Sun Jun 29
Minot
ND
178371
68F
clear, windy
$56.76
14.3gal
363.1
sauna
Mon Jun 30
Grand Forks
ND
178581
66F
rainy
210.2
waterpark
Mon Jun 30
Grand Rapids
MN
178780
62F
rainy
409.9
tin man
Tue Jul 01
Ashland
WI
178912
77F
sunny
$76.48
19.7gal
541.3
estuary
Tue Jul 01
Eagle River
MI
179099
55F
sunny
184.5
grandparents