with nothing else to do saturday I decided to take a ride out to ionia, mi. I finally made it out the door and got started about 10:10, calm winds with hardly any clouds and 72º showing on the thermometer of the mighty ST 1300. I rode up and hopped on 96 heading west, what a great day to be out on a bike, even a pushie would have been fun today! things were going great until the construction backup at around mile marker 98 so that's where I exited the expressway for some ( unknown to me ) good riding around the grand ledge, mi area. only problem was I ended up going east rather than west so once back on the expressway I ended up back in the construction zone that I was trying to avoid. once again I got off the expressway at exit 98 but this time I rode down to m-43 and headed west. I stopped in the small town of sunfield for gas which I didn't bother to get before I hit the road. all they had was 87 octane so I only got three gallons seeing that the mighty ST 1300 takes premium fuel. the thermometer on the mighty ST 1300 was up to 77º but it was cloudy, made me wonder if going west was such a good idea but the clouds were high so I rode on the made a right turn on m-66, the " other 66 "