6/9/26 LITTLE FALLS MN TO PEQUOT LAKES

69 Miles, was supposed to be 52 or so but a few mishaps with the map apps lost some mileage backtracking. A good day, didn't rain had a tailwind once I got on the Paul Bunyan State trail, in Crow Wing State Park, it all got better til Baxter / Brainerd, where the Bunyan trail and MRT overlap and the MRT goes two directions and the signs just say MRT well you don't know which direction n s e w and you don't know which MRT trail... went around in circles for an hour... lol.... Siri doesn't understand either anyway it was a good day hot but i was in the shade a lot once on the trail, i did 36 miles of the trail and it goes for over 115 if you stay on the heartland trail to lake itasca which is my plan.. highlihgt of the day besides the trail sweet smelling woods deciduous, evergreen and then those white bark trees with the little leaves... Caseys in Baxter i stopped had gatorade on deal 3 for $6 28 oz bottles which is a lot i got 3 and they had one botttle left of a new flavor Lime Cucumber something Lemon... it was so good i drank the whole bottle on the spot lol.... had to get a piece of pizza to soak it up.. got here to pequot lakes the main street of the town is all under construction shut down... you would think they would do a block or two at a time ? but it only goes for a few blocks so anyway.... feeling pretty good othr than saddle sore... I would ride the whole 72 to grand rapids tomorrow take that route up to cass lake bemidji but there are no hotels there or on that route so i may not be able to follow the river road the whole way but i'm ok with that, i am seeing enough and now i'm into lake country they are even more impressive than the river... big big lakes that the river is part of i look forward to them but suposed to have a big rain storm tonight hail and all, see how it looks in the morning i think i may call it a short day at 40 miles to Walker they have a couple hotels there its right on a big lake have a little down time let my sore butt heal up and take time to figure out uploading pics from my apple devices to this google application without giving google access to all my photos... repeat i know sorry it's a broken record with me too..ok getting late see if we have rain gear on in the morning or sunscreen.