Holiday RV-Grasslake,MI(7/11-720)

After four long days on the road, we made it to grass Lake Michigan. This is just a place to sit still while Mike flies out to Idaho for another race.

This morning when we got up, the sky looked really weird as we started the last leg of our drive. There was a big light section in the clouds. I think it was caused by the way the sun was shining through, but it was pretty neat looking.

We passed some kind of open pit mine along the way, and then made it to the Mississippi river. Once we were on top of the Mississippi river Bridge, we crossed into Indiana. Then the traffic nightmare begins. Multiple lanes of 18 wheelers going the same direction we are and we become a sandwich between the 18 wheelers. This is the area of I 80 around Gary, Indiana. Every time we come by here, it’s a traffic nightmare. And we always swear that we will never come this way again. But somehow we keep going on this same stretch of road.

After that traffic nightmare, we made it into Michigan. We stopped at a rest stop to take a break from the traffic. They had a really cute little lighthouse at the rest area.

When we arrived at the campground, it was really neat to see two sandhill cranes. We saw these all the time in Florida and I love these birds because they sound like pterodactyls with all the weird noises they make.Read more