This is one of my favorite rides out of Traverse City. You can look across the bay to land on both the west and east side. The houses along the way are pretty spectacular. It used to be that the houses on the east side were more modest than the west but now that is where most new building occurs. The upper part of the peninsula is still cherry orchards. The General Store in the village of Old Mission is just for tourists to get a pop or snack. The lighthouse at the tip of the peninsula is a destination for tourists too.

Fellow Michigan framebuilder Matt ASsenmacher learned to build frames at Bob Jackson in 1972 or 3. His bicycle shop was in Swartz Creek near Flint. He recently retired. I visited Bob Jackson's frame shop when I was learning to build frames at nearby Ellis Briggs in Shipley in 1975