Upper Pennisula of Michigan -St. Ignace

Today was probably one of the worst driving days we've ever had. The only one worst was when we got caught in that snow/ice storm in Montana for Thanksgiving. Sheer line winds, monsoon rains and overall rogue winds all day long. The wind was so bad we had to pull into a truck stop for 1.5 hours to wait it out.

Aside from bad weather, MI is almost like LA. Trees, swamps, no views..boring. And people from MI...not so friendly.

After the terrible drive, we topped it off with the drive across the Mackinac Bridge. While I was not as freaked out crossing this 1 like I am w/the Lake Charles Bridge, Redd was. Of course, he's driving an 8' wide bus in a 12' wide lane. The 18 wheelers crossing are regulated to 20mph and other vehicles are topped at 40. There's also a toll per axel, so we had to pay $14 for the bus and jeep.

We're staying at the Tiki RV park, which said there were views of Lake Huron...yea if you're standing in the street haha. It's actually a nice park w/full hookups. And they gave us a pull thru site, so that's convenient.

After we hooked up, we went into St. Ignace to get some food. We ate at a place called The Gangplank. We had burgers and fries, which was not terribly expensive and actually homemade, including hand cut fries.

We went back across the bridge this time in the jeep to Mackinac City. This is a tourist destination, but I'm not sure what the draw is. We arrived too late to take the ferry to Mackinac Island, but still. It's mostly old people and families. Not sure what the families are doing?

We visited a lighthouse, which was closed since it was 8pm and drove down to the shore of Lake Huron so redd could see if it was cold. Surprise, it was, lol.

We then decided to watch the sunset at Wilderness State Park, which was lovely. They are very proud of their international dark sky designation, and we went out to Headwaters Dark Sky Park. We weren't sure east to expect, but there were a ton of people waiting for the presentation and to look thru the telescopes. Really didn't want to fight kids for a view of Jupiter so we left and headed back to the rv park, paid the toll for the 3rd time on the bridge.

We only have a 2 hour drive tomorrow. It's supposed to be rainy again, but hopefully, it's not too bad.Leggi altro