06-07-2021, 10:12 PM
Ok… a couple of options:
1. Reset your rout to take more of a NE diagonal (probably more like a zigzag route) through Nebraska toward Minneapolis. Then continue through MN and around the top of Lake Michigan through the U.P. I can put you on some faster-but-still-nice roads through WI and up to Mackinac, but I don’t know anything about Nebraska or Minnesota. And this route is still longer than you planned by a few hundred miles.
2. Take your existing route on 80 through Joliet, IL and pick up US30 at New Lenox.
- US30 East to IN2 (near Valparaiso)
- IN2 Northeast to US6
- US6 East to US31
- US31 North to US20 (near South Bend)
- US20 East to either: 1. I-69 to I-94 then east to Detroit or 2. I-75 in Toledo and north to Detroit.
If you take the US highways 30, 6, and 20, and did not want to continue onto interstates to Detroit, I can help you with some of the non-interstate routes in Michigan.
If you time your ride to be at the Illinois/Indiana border on 80/94 at 5:30am or earlier (maybe 6:30 on a weekend) then it might still be a good option. It’s just such a terrible motorcycle route once the traffic and/or construction starts.
Hope this helps.
1. Reset your rout to take more of a NE diagonal (probably more like a zigzag route) through Nebraska toward Minneapolis. Then continue through MN and around the top of Lake Michigan through the U.P. I can put you on some faster-but-still-nice roads through WI and up to Mackinac, but I don’t know anything about Nebraska or Minnesota. And this route is still longer than you planned by a few hundred miles.
2. Take your existing route on 80 through Joliet, IL and pick up US30 at New Lenox.
- US30 East to IN2 (near Valparaiso)
- IN2 Northeast to US6
- US6 East to US31
- US31 North to US20 (near South Bend)
- US20 East to either: 1. I-69 to I-94 then east to Detroit or 2. I-75 in Toledo and north to Detroit.
If you take the US highways 30, 6, and 20, and did not want to continue onto interstates to Detroit, I can help you with some of the non-interstate routes in Michigan.
If you time your ride to be at the Illinois/Indiana border on 80/94 at 5:30am or earlier (maybe 6:30 on a weekend) then it might still be a good option. It’s just such a terrible motorcycle route once the traffic and/or construction starts.
Hope this helps.