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Man rides 685 miles of Iron Belle Trail

By LARRY HOLCOMBE

lholcombe@yourdailyglobe.com

IRONWOOD - Eleven days, 685 miles. All on a bicycle. All on the Iron Belle Trail.

That summed up the bulk of Tomas Quinones' vacation back to his home state of Michigan this month.

He started at Belle Isle in Detroit on July 16 and rolled across the bridge across the Montreal River on Wednesday morning.

If your counting, that's 12 days, but the software engineer from Portland, Oregon, took the second day off as he visited his parents in Grand Blanc after a "fairly easy day" of 85 miles, mostly on rail-to-trail trails and designated bike lanes alon...