St Ignace, MI

Marina, St Ignace, MI.  Good week for sailboats.

Having visited the Soo Locks, we're now making a slow trip south for a planned winter at Gulf Shores, AL.  For this week, we're hanging out in St Ignace, MI - just above the Mackinac Straits, Mackinac Bridge, Mackinac Island, etc.  We've had good weather though it's raining as I type this.  Most of our exercising has been us walking the Huron Boardwalk and trying to follow the North Country Trail as it passes through St Ignace to the state park to the Mackinac Bridge.  We got our share of eating out and ice cream while doing this, too.

Once again we're in the KOA.  It's an average KOA, expensive like most, but has the most bizarre hookups at many of the campsites.  I think on most campsite review sites it's called "shared hookups".  But many sites, while having electric be the shared utility, the water connections at some sites are placed in "unique" locations.  In our case we look like a spider web.  Sewer somewhat logical while electric and water go in different directions.  So ensure you have plenty of  extensions for all utilities if plan to stop here. It is a big-rig friendly campground.  We've got a couple of 45 footer class As backed-in across the road from us.  A class B to our rear has pulled forward into a back-in site because that's the only way they could make their hookups work.  Just strange.

Once we leave here, we travel south a little bit to Petosky, MI for a couple of weeks.  From there we plan to move down to the Silver Lake area of Michigan for another couple of weeks.  Still got a good 4 or 5 weeks with nothing planned before we meet the Folks-on-Spokes group for a rally in southern Ohio in mid-September.  So we're still winging it for a little bit.

Well, that's it for this week.  Later, David