It was a beautiful suuny start to the day, and we took advantage of the breakfast offered by the hotel. Once again we traveled by way to many trees and swamp land. Most of the land along Lake Superior is what my father used to say “did nothing but hold the rest of the world together“. I did get to see a white deer along the road about an hour out of Marquette. Everything on it was white except it’s two front legs.

We rolled down to Route 2 at noon, and got our first look at Lake Michigan. Cody and I both agree that we like Lake Michigan better than Superior. We stopped a couple of places along the way to look at impressive lake [I was looking for some drift wood I could take home to Mom, but luck wasn‘t with me]. Finally just before reaching St Ignatius ,MI we sighted the great Mackinaw bridge. I wish that it hadn’t been so hazy. I really wanted to get a picture of the bridge, but it wasn’t to be. We continued along toward the bridge and stopped for lunch just before crossing at a Big Boy’s.

After crossing the Mackinaw bridge at a snails pace, with out my looking anyway but straight ahead, we got onto I-75 south, and began hell driving. There are a lot of annoying people on the road out here, and way to much road work. I was never so glad in my life to see the Cabela’s in Dundee,MI and after nine hours of travel to find ourselves at the hotel. We are staying at the Holiday Inn Express, which is a really cool place. They have an indoor water park, and a hunting lodge theme all over the place including stuffed animals in the lobby. As a plus after all the time in the car, we could walk over to the Cabela’s, and over to Bob Evens for dinner.

I am not looking forward to getting back in the car in the morning.