DEXTER — Jumping on his tricycle and accompanied by his dog, Bandit, 4-year-old Michael Roach of Dexter took a trip to town Thursday afternoon.

As his mother, Jane Roach, and others searched around Roach’s Route 7 home for about two hours for the boy, Michael was busy pedaling his tricycle to town two miles away along abandoned railroad tracks.

A Department of Transportation worker in the area alerted Dexter police that the boy was missing because Jane Roach has no telephone.

At about 3:30 p.m., police received a call that the boy was in the parking lot at Bud’s Shop ‘n Save supermarket. Other than being barefoot, he looked fine, according to Cpl. Allen Emerson of the Dexter Police Department.

The route Michael took caused him to cross at least one busy highway apparently without incident.

Emerson said the boy’s mother said he had a habit of going down the railroad tracks and that she had to retrieve him three times earlier in the day.

After the incident, Michael wouldn’t talk with the police or his mother. Instead, he ran to his room expecting some trouble, Emerson said. Bandit was still at large.