Across Wisconsin

6-8-2021 – Tuesday

Today was our travel day, and we drove Hwy 2 across Wisconsin, then in and out of Michigan on Hwy 2 and 141.  It was 61 when I got up, but it warmed up to 93, too hot. One town we went through not too long before we got to the campground registered 100 degrees.  We got an early start, 8:00, and crossed into Michigan the first time at 9:45.  We were back in Wisconsin at 1:10, Michigan again at 1:55, and Wisconsin for the night at 2:10, about 8 miles (probably less) from the Michigan border.  But our campground is off the beaten path, very secluded, not much of a phone signal, and no internet.  I think it’s part of a city park system, but we are in the boonies, about 25 miles south of Iron Mountain, I think.  The address here is Pembine, but I don’t think that makes the map. 

Our drive was mostly through forests, sprinkled with lakes, through an occasional small town.  We saw two deer, and lots of trees.  No pictures today, which is just as well since we have no internet.  I will have to post this tomorrow when we drive into civilization in the Jeep.  Just before we finally reached our campground, we went past a house that had an irrigation sprinkler going.  Joe considered parking under the spray for a while to get the RV washed.  Our road seemed to go on and on.  The GPS would tell us how many miles to the next turn, but it didn’t show how many miles to the campground.  Finally, with 2.2 miles to the next turn (and we didn’t know if it was our last), Joe said if the campground wasn’t at this next turn, he was just going to take a nap right there.  Luckily, it was only another mile, but then we turned too soon, and drove an extra mile, had to make a u-turn to come back.  Nothing is ever simple for us!

We only have electricity at this camp site, so it didn’t take him long to get us set up.  He messed with the TV but we have no television signal here either.  And we are here for 3 nights!  Not sure how this will work out. 

We drove 237 miles today.  Our plan is to drive to Green Bay tomorrow, which is about 90 miles.  It stormed a little just before dark, but no wind, and it didn’t last that long, although it continued to sprinkle for a while.   Joe started the motor and turned the windshield wipers on for a while to try to get the bugs off the windshield.  We will see tomorrow if it helped.

Once we leave here, we are headed to the lower portion of the UP – we came across the northern part 2 years ago (that’s where I got all my rocks.  Hope the southern portion is equally generous.)  This taste of hot weather has already made us reluctant to start south, but that’s what lies ahead.