TenaCity to WindyCity

                                  TenaCity to WindyCity Runyak October 14, 2020 Flint to Chicago DAY 53 ALL PHOTOS AND IMAGES WILL ENLARGE WHEN CLICKED This time we had better luck picking paddle a day. We arrived at dawn to water we could enter without getting wet. Well at least I did. Kate tried and got awash. Had to retry after draining Green Snake. Kate used my reserve kayak. I offered it, knowing her nearly identical kayak would not fit inside her Rendezvous. She instead brought a bike in case we needed it.  Our launch site for DAY 54 Muskegon's Meinert County Park.  Heading south on Lake Michigan as usual, many sand dunes.  Skies the limit. I used a new hat today given to me by Nick and Jeni Godlesky. I prefer my captain's hat but with it I have to shift the bill to block out the sun. I was bundled up quite well, the temperature was in the 30s. I was loving our pace for the first 5 miles,it was under 20 min/mile. Faster than portage pace. These photos were taken at the ch

                                       TenaCity to WindyCity Runyak October 14,, 2020 Flint to Chicago DAY 53 ALL PHOTOS AND IMAGES WILL ENLARGE WHEN CLICKED I met Kate at Meinert County Park in Muskegon Co before daylight. We walked to the beach to look at the wave action with a flashlight. Not good. Waves were white capping on the shore. Well, Meinert is where we'd finish, hopefully our launch point, Claybanks Twp Park was launchable. We drove and got there as dawn arrived. The video shows be swamped everytime we tried launching.  I had driven 3 hour, I was not willing to turn around and just drive the 3 hours home. I decided to portage to Meinert Park. Five miles of carrying Swiftee. There was a time I would have dragged him but I learned the hard way that friction from dragging put holes in the the hull. I found carrying the kayak over the shoulders was actually faster. This was learned on DAY 34 when I portaged from the AuSable River to the Manistee along M72.  At that time my