We headed out at 8:30am from Sturgeon Bay after a good night's sleep. Carol and I are getting pretty good at the suitcase/motel lifestyle.
We stopped at McDonald's for a light breakfast.
We have a lot of ground to cover today plus being able to stop, look and take pictures.
The plan is to stay on Circle Tour Road which is 41/35 and later to 2 in Michigan.
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| 8-11-2013 10am Lake Michigan from Wisconsin. |
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| 8-11-2013 10am Someone is going fishing! |
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We're driving just to the east of Green Bay and not encountering very much traffic. We really enjoy the 2 lane roads and find they are less traveled.
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| 8-11-2013 11:15am Menominee Michigan Veteran's Memorial. |
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| 8-11-2013 Menominee Michigan |
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| 8-11-2013 11:15am Menominee MI |
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| 8-11-2013 11:15am Here comes Carol. (She had to change shoes, lots of goose poo.) |
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| 8-11-2013 Lake Michigan at Menominee Michigan and geese. |
We drove and stopped occasionally for walks and photos as often as possible.
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| 8-11-2013 1:30pm Time to stretch our legs. |
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| 8-11-2013 1:30pm |
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| 8-11-2013 Michigan...Hemlock Views - Private Beach. |
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| 8-11-2013 Hey, you want to tell Thelma and Louise that they are on a private beach? |
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8-11-2013 Lake Michigan.
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Wisconsin is such a good state to see Lake Michigan, but the after we crossed into Michigan that
tapered off and we continued on to Mackinaw City. There was more traffic the closer we got to Mackinaw City but still not too bad.
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| 8-11-2013 2 pm Manistique Michigan. |
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| 8-11-2013 2pm Manistique Lighthouse |
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| 8-11-2013 Lake Michigan at Manistique Michigan. |
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| 8-11-2013 Manistique Lighthouse |
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| 8-11-2013 Manistique Michigan |
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| 8-11-2013 Manistique Lighthouse |
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| 8-11-2013 Manistique Lighthoue |
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| 8-11-2013 Manistique Lighthouse. |
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| 8-11-2013 Home on Lake Michigan at Manistique Michigan. |
We had a good crossing of the Mackinaw Bridge, it was not windy.
The Comfort Inn that we are staying at was on the beach, and we could see Mackinaw Island in the distance and watch the water taxis traveling back and forth.
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| 8-11-2013 4:20pm View from our room, Lake Huron. |
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| 8-11-2013 4:20pm Mackinaw City Michigan. |
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| 8-11-2013 4:20pm |
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| 8-11-2013 Comfort Inn Mackinaw City. |
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| 8-11-2013 4:20pm Our room with a balcony. |
After eating dinner at the Family Restaurant we checked out some shops. Most of the shops are very geared to selling t-shirts, sweatshirts and well, you know.
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| 8-11-2013 5:30pm Mackinaw City. |
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| 8-13-2013 Shopping in Mackinaw City |
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| 8-11-2013 Mackinaw City |
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| 8-11-2013 Mackinaw City. |
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| 8-11-2013 LiveStatue Robert Shangle. He has very blue eyes, and was making quite a few people jump when winked. |
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| 8-11-2013 The Coast Guard Ship. |
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| 8-11-2013 Mackinaw City, Lake Huron. |
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| 8-11-2013 Edgar |
Little side note, at this point, once in a while, Carol has to remind me which Motel our room is in, well, it has been 4 days now.......and this one was a little tricky...you entered the Comfort Inn, but used the elevator for another...and well, nice place though.
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| 8-11-2013 7:30pm Back to our room and the view from our balcony. |
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| 8-11-2013 Yes, it's good to relax. |
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| 8-11-2013 Going back and forth to Mackinaw Island. |
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| 8-11-2013 Beautiful evening on Lake Huron. |
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| 8-11-2013 Rooster tail is so showy. Star Line to Mackinaw Island which you can see in the background. |
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| 8-11-2013 Coast Guard ship wit Mackinaw Island in the background. |
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| 8-11-2013 Mackinaw Island from Mackinaw City. |
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| 8-11-2013 7:30 pm |
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| 8-11-2013 Mackinaw Island (with my other camera lens). |
"Mackinac Island welcomed its first people as early as 2000 years ago when Native Americans of the Woodland Period paddled canoes there to fish for trout, herring, whitefish, sturgeon and pike. Fish were so abundant that the early inhabitants referred to the Island as "home of the fish". Artifacts confirm Native Americans in the Mackinaw City area at least 700 years before Europeans arrived. But, as with the Island, their actual presence in the area goes back much further.
The Original People, the Anishinaabe-Ojibwe, believed Machinac Island was a sacred place and the home of the Great Spirit Gitchie Manitou. Its location in the center of the Great Lakes Waterway, between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, close to both the Upper and Lower Peninsula, made the area a natural tribal gathering place. The first people believed that once the Europeans came to the area Gitchie Manitou abandoned the Island to dwell in the Norther Lights."
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| 8-11-2013 Beautiful scene of Mackinaw City. |
We came back to the room and sat on the balcony and watched the kids swim and the traffic on the water before tucking ourselves into bed.
It's going to be another great day tomorrow, starting with taking photos of the Mackinaw Bridge.
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