Day 8 Alto to East Lansing..
I get up around 7:00am and have my usual steal cut oats with peanut butter and coffee. Pack up and on the road around 9:00am. I ride about 3 miles and another spoke broke it takes about 30 minutes to repair now I have no more spare spokes and have 46 miles to go.and another thing I noticed was my USB cable that changes my phone is no longer working and the spare one that I brought along does not work with my phone. This was happening the day before and I was wondering why my phone was not charging, I went through 2 batteries and had one that was half charged, I forgot to recharge all my batteries at my bro's house. So I switch over to my backup phone and used it for navigation. I really did not need it because I knew where I was and all I had to do was to find Willow road in Grand Ledge and that would take me to Lansing. I kind of remembered where things are it was coming back to me especially when entering Grand Ledge, I used to live in East Lansing 30 years ago, so my memory is serving me well.
Around 1:00pm about 2 miles outside Lake Odessa I hear another pop and its a spoke, I pedal into Lake Odessa thinking that I will find a bar and call my brother to pick me up. But I tighten some pokes and get the wheel straighten out enough where the brakes are not rubbing against the rim. So I ride on and not take to many breaks, arrived into into Grand Ledge then get lost trying to find Willow Rd. eventually I found it, then came across a Quality Dairy store and had to have a QD Ice Cream cone. Get back on the road and follow Willow road all the way into Lansing and find Capital Ave that takes me to Michigan Ave, then Kalamazoo and now I'm in East Lansing I take my last turn onto my brother Mikes street and another spoke pops, only another quarter mile to go. Around 3:15pm with two spokes broken and almost dead phone I pull up into my Bros driveway and he is outside trimming shrubs and drinking beer of course. I think that this was a good day to end my tour. Google map of today's route http://goo.gl/maps/7vl6
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