U.P. Michigan

St. Ignace, MI

Happy Father's Day to everyone out there!

We're passing through the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan as we make our way to Two Harbors, MN.  This area is experiencing pop-up storms as we travel through.  Nothing too bad has affected us.  And as you can see from the pictures, it hasn't hurt the scenic nature of the area at all.

This trip started Tuesday.  We had a nice trip up to our first stop in St Ignace where we walked the boardwalk and got some ice cream.  On Wednesday we traveled through a weather front and got to Ishpeming where we got some afternoon rain.  We took today off from traveling and took a walk along the bicycle path that runs along the Lake Superior shoreline in Marquette.  After that, a stop for groceries, diesel, a McDonald's ice cream cone, and a shopping stop at Hilltop RV rounded out the afternoon.

Plans are to move on to Saxon, WI tomorrow for the weekend.  We plan to stop at a new-to-us campground - Frontier Bar & Campground, so we're not sure what we're getting into.  I had thought it'd get us somewhat close to Bayfield, WI and the Apostle Islands.  Donna also found a state park close by to check out.  Then there's the weather apps indicating a wet weekend for the area.  I guess we'll just have to see what happens.

Truck & trailer are doing OK, so far.  One obnoxious feature of the truck is that it blows the horn if you close the door while the truck is running and no truck or Ford forum (that I know of) has come up with any way to program that feature out.  I kinda think I know why Ford did that (& it could be a U.S. DOT requirement), but it's clear that whoever approved that feature has never used a vehicle in a work environment, had to adjust where your trailer is parked in a campsite, or wanted to step out of the truck for a moment while it's raining.  As I was fussing about the RV park staff that assigned us our too-narrow-to-open-our-trailer's-slides campsite, Tuesday, our truck took that horn-blowing feature one step further. It began to blow the horn whenever you closed the door.  Truck running, truck not running, driver in the truck, driver not in the truck, it didn't matter.  Remote fob in truck or out of truck.  You close the door, it blew the horn.  Obnoxious not only to me, but to everyone in the RV park.  Restarts of the truck didn't faze it at all.  Close the door, horn blew.  Eventually, it stopped.  No idea why or what we did to stop it.  Apparently, whoever wrote this portion of the truck's software program for Ford started out writing software for printers & copiers and, unfortunately, left the ability to sense your frustration in the sub-routine!

Anyway, we're enjoying our trip through the U.P.  Hope everyone has a great weekend.  Thanks for checking up on us.  Until next week, David

Marquette, MI