Vacation time!

Today starts a week of vacation for me.  After a day of lake time, projects and such today, we’re taking a short excursion up north.  We will be traveling to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with our granddaughter Jenna and taking in some of our favorite things there.  We’re going to start at the Soo Locks in Sault Sainte Marie, which serve as the gateway to shipping in the Great Lakes.  Then to Paradise (MI) for a stop at Whitefish Point and the Shipwreck Museum and after that to my FAVORITE spot, Tahquamenon Falls.  I hope we can rent a boat and row across to the island – we haven’t done that in recent memory.

Tahquamenon Falls in winter

We’re going to try a new spot next, the Oswald Bear Ranch.  If I understand the concept, they rescue orphaned or abandoned bear cubs and give them a chance to live in the wild.

Next, it’s on to Palms Book State Park and Kitch-iti-kipi, Big Spring.  10,000 gallons of water a minute come from the springs.  Then a trip to Fayette to visit the abandoned iron mining community there.  On our last visit there, we found a little restaurant along the way that served the best pasties.  Jenna has promised me she will try a pasty, as long as… (and her list is pretty long).

On the way home we plan to stop at the Cut River Bridge for a hike down the gorge and back up, and then at the north’s two best tourist traps, Mystery Spot in St. Ignace and Sea Shell City.

We’d love to make it to Pictured Rocks in Munising, but that is another day away from the lake.

I hope to take a lot of pictures, and will enter the best one in a contest at WatercolorsByPhyllis.com to win a free original watercolor painting.  If you have a favorite photo, you should enter the contest.  Just email your photo to contests@watercolorsbyphyllis.com.  For more details, check their blog.

Kitch-iti-kipi

8 comments

  1. It will be two – three days. Jenna seems to be excited about it, as long as we get a trip up the river to Big Boy before she goes home. That was to be Saturday’s journey, but has since been moved to Friday.

    Tom, I still have to work for a living,and I will put in some time this week while on vacation. My fun only comes on the weekends. The beauty of it all is I don’t have to go anywhere.

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