Welcome to Michigan

 6-11-2021 - Friday

We are ready to be done with Wisconsin.  It got warm here, and lots of bugs.  We headed out about 8:30.  We drove Hwy 141 south to Hwy 64 (I was hoping to see my belted cows, but they must have been closer to Green Bay), then east across 64 for 18 miles.  We made all the correct left turns and right turns, and didn't get lost even once.  We crossed the Michigan state line at 10:15.  The last town in Wisconsin, Marinette, had some cute pots of flowers decorating the boulevard.  

Across the river, in Menominee, Michigan, there was a "statue" of a pair of Clysdales pulling a wagon, but I didn't get that picture.  These towns are all nice and clean, pretty, lots of flowers, houses in good condition, yards mowed.  We changed time zones again along in here, so we now are on Eastern Daylight Time. 

Our highway went right beside Lake Michigan, and we had lots of glimpses.  We saw campgrounds along here too, but you have to know they are there.

 And we are continuing on the lilac trail, they are still blooming in Michigan!

We are at a very nice campground in Garden, Michigan, on the east side of Big Bay de Noc, on the southern shore of the Upper Peninsula. But the Verizon phone signal is very week, as is the internet.  We did get TV though, so that was good. We got here about 1:30, so that was a pretty short day for us.

We think there are some places in the campground with better phone signal and internet than our site, so Joe is checking that out.  So far tonight, though, we have been able to get on the internet in the RV, although it is sometimes very slow.

 I'm hoping to find some rocks here, but we may have to drive up to the north shore, which I think is about 50 miles along in here.  The temperature is a balmy 65 degrees, very windy, but sunny.  When we got here, we opened the windows instead of turning on the A/C, but now we've closed them because it got too cold!

There were two food trucks just south of town, one with fish, the other with mini donuts.  Both were very good.  I didn't see a restaurant in town that was still in business, so that might be the only thing going here.  The campground we are in is only open from May to October.  

We had a pretty easy day today, drove 167 miles.  We are booked in here for 2 nights, but may extend if I can find a rocky beach to rockhound.  We will probably drive this peninsula tomorrow until we run out of road.  The town of Manistique is the next town of any size back on Hwy 2, so we might drive over there.  We went through there once before, in 2015, but I don't remember if we stopped.  We will see what tomorrow brings.