After breakfast in Durand, Audrey gave me a shave and haircut ($10 total). Here is a photo of Audrey in her "personally decorated" barber shop.
I had gone to Durand because I had heard that there was a bicycle path that started in Durand and went to Eau Clair, about 30 miles north. But as I got started I found out that there was a series of "semi-connected" bike trails going all the way to Brunet Island State Park, a distance of about 70 miles! This was another really relaxing bicycling day, with not even many other bicyclists to be concerned about.
A couple of photos of the Chippewa River are attached. One place that I found really intriguing, but didn't take a picture of, was a wooded area that had no sign of any past community there; but a trailside sign showed a picture of the now-defunct town of Portersville, which had a population of 2,900 and several lumber mills before the mills shut down in 1908.
Arrived at the campground just as it was getting dark, pitched my tent, ate a freeze-dried dinner in the dark, and had time for a welcome shower. Plan to take tomorrow off a rest day.
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