Ride a motorcycle across Lake Michigan on a Ferry | Motorcycle Camping Adventure ep.4

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  • Опубліковано 28 жов 2024

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  • @tracyadamsmoto2465
    @tracyadamsmoto2465 2 роки тому +2

    Haha, great video. I did the same trip Sunday and it was a little rougher. I vlogged it on my channel. No one chummed though, so it was a successful crossing 👍

  • @trlt-theroadlesstraveled8607
    @trlt-theroadlesstraveled8607 2 роки тому +3

    I grew up in northern Ohio, Great Lakes weather is a whole thing.

  • @BrianBraaten
    @BrianBraaten 2 роки тому +1

    Great video looks fun

  • @NorthWestMotos
    @NorthWestMotos 2 роки тому +2

    I would be just as excited as you to get on the ferry. Ferry rides are great! Love the videos my man. Keep it up.

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  2 роки тому +1

      I am a real sucker for ferries, pretty sure I have ridden onto a few dozen in the last few years. if you're a ferry guy, I hope you are subscribed. should be a few more coming up shortly

  • @TheCdubbleyoo
    @TheCdubbleyoo 3 місяці тому

    I am so excited by taking a bike on a ferry, that I searched "motorcycle ferry" so I can watch people performing the glorious act.
    I wish there was a YT channel of nothing but bikes crossing on ferries.
    I haven't been on one in almost 3 years 😢.
    Ride safe.

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  3 місяці тому

      I have some epic ferry rides mixed in with other videos, but I DO have these that were easy to find? ua-cam.com/video/1OhDSplgdd4/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/7KBWPFryWeU/v-deo.html

  • @garysbackroadadventures
    @garysbackroadadventures 2 роки тому +3

    Great video of the ferry ride. I kept thinking I was gonna see Capt. Jack Sparrow do his famous run across the ferry. Looking forward to the dunes camping.

  • @dougfresh1341
    @dougfresh1341 2 роки тому

    Title photo was the bomb! That’s what makes your vids pro.
    Keep on adventurin’
    Shopping for your mini cook stove today.

  • @AydnLuy
    @AydnLuy 2 роки тому

    I love this my dude keep it up 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @jeffhambric9045
    @jeffhambric9045 2 роки тому

    Enjoyed, maybe one day. Maybe we will get there.

  • @scubawi
    @scubawi Рік тому

    Great video. I'll be taking the LE across the lake with my motorcycle in a few weeks.
    You have to come back to Wisconsin some time.

  • @charlescummings1484
    @charlescummings1484 2 роки тому +2

    Grand Rapids Michigan, the former furniture capital of the world! Milwaukee, WI, the presented location of the TV show Happy Days, they even have a statue of the Fonze! I still watch re-runs to escape the modern world sometimes..

  • @michaelparker4457
    @michaelparker4457 Рік тому

    What a ride! Been on the Badger many times. Almost rode on this ferry but missed our connection. Ride Safe. Would absolutely LOVE to ride around Michigan like my parents did.

  • @bradb2514
    @bradb2514 2 роки тому +1

    I love a good ferry, too. Looks like you’re heading north toward Traverse City way. I have family there and spent many a summer on the beach and at the dunes.

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  2 роки тому +1

      I rolled right through traverse City, that video should be coming in the next few days. I can imagine that's a really cool place in the summer, but damn it I will never go back in the spring Jesus Christ it was so cold

    • @bradb2514
      @bradb2514 2 роки тому

      LOL! Those Michiganders might think it’s a bit chilly but the rest of us are frr…, frrr…., frrrr, frrreeezzzing!

  • @GrapplingwithReality
    @GrapplingwithReality 7 місяців тому

    Very cool that’s the USS Silversides on the channel in Muskegon. I grew up in town just down the road. Fun to hear about your perspective of something I grew up with, the lake, the climate and everything else. Looking forward to watching the other videos from your trip

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  7 місяців тому

      I bet that was a cool place to grow up?

    • @GrapplingwithReality
      @GrapplingwithReality 7 місяців тому

      @@MotoGiant Yes definitely was very fortunate though Muskegon has its problems like any other town but things seem to be headed in a good direction here. Moved back home a few years back and just got a dual sport in December. Looking forward to exploring once things warm up

  • @swizale
    @swizale 2 роки тому

    There is another ferry from Michigan in Ludington. Its the oldest coal fired boat still running. It take 4 hours to cross the lake. Cool boat and a good time.

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  2 роки тому +1

      might have to take that one when I go back?

    • @swizale
      @swizale 2 роки тому

      @@MotoGiant I live right near Nordhouse Dunes. I go there often. Sometimes on my bike and put up a hamock and read a book. Great spot.

  • @TheRuffusMD
    @TheRuffusMD 2 роки тому

    i love ferrys too i drive out of the way to ride on them , that " sea wall " is called a jetty

  • @senorboardhead
    @senorboardhead 27 днів тому

    There is an entire weather system (Lake Effect) based on The Great Lakes as a whole , each lake having local effects from that larger system.
    This route also avoids some of the restrictions Illinois places on your constitutional freedoms.

  • @Liberty4Ever
    @Liberty4Ever 2 роки тому +1

    When I take my 90 year old mom out for a drive, I play 1940s music, and one of the songs is The Ferryboat Serenade.
    I have never been aboard a steamer
    I am just content to be a dreamer
    Even if I could afford a steamer
    I will take the ferry boat every time
    I love to ride the ferry
    Where music is so merry
    There's a man who plays the concertina
    On the moonlit upper deck arena
    While boys and girls are dancing
    While sweethearts are romancing
    Life is like a mardi-gras
    Funiculi, funicula
    Happy, we cling together
    Happy, we sing together
    Happy, with the ferry boat serenade
    I am happy, very, very happy
    When we're on the ferry
    The music is so merry
    There's a man who plays the concertina
    On the moonlit upper deck arena, arena
    I love to ride the ferry
    Where music is so merry
    There's a man who always plays the concertina, oh my
    On the moonlit upper deck arena, by and by
    While the boys and girls are dancing, oh dancing
    While, while the sweethearts are romancing
    Life is like a mardi-gras
    Funiculi, funicula
    Happy, we cling together
    Happy, we sing together
    Happy with the ferry boat serenade
    I love to ride the ferry
    Sailing, sailing where, where the music is so merry
    There's a man who just plays the concertina
    On the moonlit upper deck arena
    All the while the boys and girls are dancing
    Look around and you see sweethearts romancing
    Life is like a mardi-gras
    Funiculi, funicula
    Happy, we cling together
    Happy, we sing together
    Happy, with the ferry boat serenade

  • @conniewaite1371
    @conniewaite1371 Рік тому

    Southern tip of Illinois has a ferry into Kentucky by cave in rock.its an older version but nice.the cave there was once a looters hideout,featured in a daniel Boone movie. Our first time across it was late at nite and foggy.dad just came to a stop with the river lapping at our tires.no signs or lites.this was years ago,lol.they have made improvements since

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  Рік тому +1

      I bet you could spend a year or more simply riding around the country hitting all the ferries? That sounds like a really good trip.

  • @markdogsadventures9795
    @markdogsadventures9795 2 роки тому

    that was cool

  • @JohnSmith-qs5fg
    @JohnSmith-qs5fg 2 роки тому

    Not just the lake. Temps have been cold this yr in the entire state. I've been here for 65yrs and hate the climate.
    Michigan has 3 seasons, cold & damp, frigid & dry, and hot & humid.

  • @markmoffett6813
    @markmoffett6813 2 роки тому +2

    Another great video Don , thanks again for sharing . May I ask how much it cost for the boat ride ? Looking forward to seeing more camping adventures.
    Mark from Maryland

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  2 роки тому +1

      A lot

    • @Liberty4Ever
      @Liberty4Ever 2 роки тому +2

      I looked up the price online and it looks like it's $63 for the motorcycle and $97 for the rider, one way.

  • @AydnLuy
    @AydnLuy 2 роки тому

    Let me guess you edit with headphones on 🤪. As a UA-camr myself I turn up the volume as much as I can on the files so that my viewers can turn it down if they need but they can never turn it up 🤪🤪🤪. I am watching on my phone and I can't hear what the other biker dude is saying 😁😁. Obviously not too loud but louder then your standard volume. You can do that on your editing software 😁😁. Hope this helps. 😁🍻 I hope this is not just me 😂😂 if it is then I'm sure there are other people like me so maybe you can make your own subtitles for viewers like me 🤪🤪🤪 quick tips 😁🍻

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  2 роки тому +1

      I only added with headphones while I'm on the road otherwise it's a nice stereo. yeah I understand I can turn parts of the dialogue but from what I remember it wasn't really worth the effort and most people would probably be disappointed anyway I don't think the guy said a whole lot

    • @AydnLuy
      @AydnLuy 2 роки тому

      @@MotoGiant 😂😂😂😂 well that's good 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

  • @roadtripper5553
    @roadtripper5553 2 роки тому

    I have a place I'm not there yet but I'll be up there the 10th of June

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  2 роки тому

      I'm in the Badlands now brother, I know it's hard to keep track I'm a week behind on editing and uploading

  • @SP-xd8gs
    @SP-xd8gs 2 роки тому

    I need to do a trip to pick up a bike in detroit and ride back , will take this ferry back to milwaukee did you get sick on it thats what im worried about

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  2 роки тому +1

      rock solid catamaran - almost zero side to side movement.

  • @clroger4
    @clroger4 9 місяців тому

    Did you take your own straps?

    • @MotoGiant
      @MotoGiant  9 місяців тому +1

      They have them on the boat - ask for the special rate! Otherwise, it is pretty expensive :(

  • @roadtripper5553
    @roadtripper5553 2 роки тому

    Ontonagon mi

  • @ka509
    @ka509 2 роки тому

    Keep going north and you will find Wildlings and White Walkers! Too bad you were unable to record Beetlejuice while you were in Sh$#hole Chicago.