The most beautiful commute ever

If there were a beautiful bike commute contest I would win. Starting from my house, I have a 15 minute coast downhill, through the beautiful Bay View community. Often as I ride past the arts campus in the center of Bay View, I can hear the resident artists just beginning to warm up. I leave the viols and trumpets behind and cruise into Petoskey. At this point I usually break down and stop for a cup of coffee at my favorite cafe, Roast & Toast (I know, road bikes and espresso? How cliche.) From there on I take a combination of bike path and clean, wide road shoulders all the way to Charlevoix, where I work as an engineer. Doesn't sound that great? Consider then that this road and the paralleling bike path exactly follows the coastline of Little Traverse Bay, a gorgeous area of Lake Michigan. There is a reason why so many of the Chicago lumber and railroad barons built their vacation homes up here--This place reminds me of New Zealand in its friendliness and beauty of nature.
Luckily my job has flex hours, so if I stop to admire the view of the water and the land across the bay (No, you can't see Wisconsin from Michigan), I'm not in any trouble with the boss (Who is, by the way, pretty darn cool).
The only downside of this commute? It's 25 miles each way, which isn't bad, except the very last thing I do at the end of the day is climb the tallest hill in the township to get up to my house. Whew, that one really wrecks me.