Egg On The Run

Friday, July 21, 2017

Day Two at Brimley State Park, Brimley, Michigan. Went over to SOO Locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan where freighters pass through locks connecting Lake Huron and Lake Superior. Very, very impressive bit of engineering completed in 1943.

A big freighters was just leaving Huron for Superior, after being lifted +- 30 feet in a lock. (Good grief!)

With luck there'll be photo of 1) sunset last night on. Lake Superior, 2) a video revealing the inter workings of a U.P. Michigan state park during this, the peak vacation season for middle-American- Michigander working folks. A great group! And 3), another photo of something, but I can't remember what.

Later.......

Thursday, July 20, 2017

19/20

Butter Don't Melt Tour

July 19th. Alas...we won't make it far enough north for the butter not to melt. We're way up north close to Lake Superior & it's warm in the sun, but the breeze is cool and There's Low Humidity. Toward morning you pull a quilt up about half-way. Nice for sleeping & napping.

Last night stayed at J.W, Wells State Park, Cedar River, MI. Great photo Ann took at dawn this morning of the fireball-of-a-sun coming up over Lake Mich. And then there was the photo of the Boy Scout totem pole and maybe a couple of more selfies. We've simply got to give it up with the selfies as this blog is morphing into a "home movie" sort of thing and watching someone else's home movies can be torture.

Tonight we set up camp in Tahquamenon (obviously not Irish) Falls State Park, Paradise, MI. It's close to Lake Superior. Tomorrow, we'll go up to White Fish Point to see the famous light house and go to the mariners museum. It features the story of and artifacts from the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald which sank off-shore.

Since north-to-not-melting butter ain't gonna work, we thought we'd try to step into---maybe even dive into each of the Great Lakes, but as fate would have it, we'll probably only hit Lake Michigan, Superior & Huron. Ontario is way over toward New York & we may have to pass on this. Oh well......

I'll take some goofy photo tomorrow.

Later........

Butter Tour Continues

Thursday, July 20,2017--Brimley State Park on Lake Superior in Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula. With the melting butter silliness swept aside we decided to take a dip in all five of the Great Lake, but as fate would have it we'll only dive into three of the five: Michigan, Superior & Huron. Erie and Ontario will have to wait. Hey... three out of five /60% ain't so bad. Superior was truly chilly so we zipped up our shorty wet suits and dove in on the count of three. I must say, the wet suits were curiosity items for the Michiganders sunning on the shore.

We're staying here at Brimley for two days. Our site is in a shady grove just next to the water. It's 72 degrees with a brisk breeze. Very low humidity. Burrr...

Yesterday, we pontificated about how weird we've begun to feel doing this trailering thing. As was the case during earlier lengthy trips, home has become a foggy concept. The cliche, "live in the moment," applies. Each day constitutes an end-all experience. You don't think about tomorrow because you're too absorbed in the here-and-now. We meet folks who've been doing this for years & they've got a strange persona; an odd, at ease vibe about them. They just "chill", then move on when the mood strikes them.

Later........