SCHOOLIN’ WITH

BY JOHN BURNS

PHOTOS BY RYAN BURNS AND SIMON CUDBY

What’s that? A Jeff Stanton Adventure Tour, in Michigan?

I’m in! Finally, the chance for a nice adventure-bike ride not in some Godforsaken desert. Sand belongs on the beach! In the immortal lyrics of Rod Stewart, “look how wrong you can be”: Michigan, poking up between all those Great Lakes, pretty much is a big sandbox as it turns out. But at least there are plenty of trees and other flora to keep the sands from shifting quite so much and provide a little shade. Thanks to some nice rain right before we flew in