UPPER PENINSULA, MICHIGAN,,,,,JUNE 8-11, 2012

Well with mixed emotions we leave our friends Carla & Harry to continue on with our trip.  We have had a wonderful time over the last 6 days with them.  Thank you Carla and Harry for your hospitality.  Sad to leave but happy to continue on our journey.  We are on our way to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to visit Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.  We drove about 250 miles today and stayed overnight at St. Ignace, Michigan.  We stayed in the casino parking lot with water and  electric for $10.00 a night.  Walked around the casino a bit and headed back to the motorhome for supper and a relaxing evening.  Left the next morning to head to Munising in the Upper Peninsula.

We crossed over the Mackinac Bridge (beautiful bridge).  As soon we crossed over the bridge we saw the small red building (gift shop that made homemade Pasties) Carla told us about and stopped to pick up some Pasties.  Delicious.  We drove about another 250 miles today and got to the Christmas, Mi casino in the Upper Peninsula where we would stay for the next 3 nights.  They had only 5 sites and we were the only ones at the RV sites for the 3 days.  Security told us we could stay as long as we wanted.  We had 50 AMP electricity and the cost was a whopping $0.00.  Can't beat that.  We did go into the casino daily to play a few games.  After 3 days we walked out with a few dollars more than we started with.

The Upper Peninsula is a beautiful place.  Pictured Rocks is a National Lakeshore on Lake Superior.  Lake Superior is one of the 10 largest freshwater lakes in the world.  The water is crystal clear.  We took a 3 hours cruise to view the rocks.  All I can say is they were amazing and we had a great time.  It was 90 degrees that day, so the cruise was just the thing we needed.

East Channel Lighthouse

                                         
                                                         

               
This is a root from a tree which is on the rock on the right.  The rocks that the root was originally in has fallen and the root still joins the tree on the right

Root between two formations of rocks connected to tree on the right.  The rocks that originally were between has fallen but root still is attached to tree on right and the tree continues to grow.
                     

JUNE 10, 2012


Today was an overcast day and a bit cooler so we decided to go for a ride and do some hikes.  We hiked to a few waterfalls.  There are lots of very nice waterfalls in the Upper Peninsula.  I am putting a few pictures only.  We are having trouble with our picture site and until we can get it straightened out I will have to be stingy on showing pictures.  As soon as we figure out the problem I will go back and edit this and add pictures.  Sorry about that.


We had a great day hiking and seeing the rocks from a different perspective than on the cruise.  It was nice seeing them from the water and then hiking and seeing them from the back.

Pictured Rocks from Log Slide Trail (hike)

Pictured Rocks from a hike

                                          Miners Falls from Miners Falls hike, Pictured Rocks

This is looking at the sand dunes in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

This was used to transport logs.  The large wheels made it possible to log throughout the winter.

Au Sable Lighthouse.  It was built in 1874. 

JUNE 11, 2012 TO JUNE 15, 2012


Today we are leaving and heading to Wisconsin to see friends, John and Sharon Pijan.  John and  Jesse were in Vietnam together in 1966-1967.  We spent 3 days with them reminiscing and playing games and eating.  Had a great time and we were happy to have the time to see them again.

Weather has been good and having a great time.