Day Five - Lake to Lake

With a forecast of rain and the desire for a little extra security Dick was able to park the woody under the portico of the hotel entrance for the night. Good thing he did as it did rain during the night. Fortunately the morning was partly sunny, just right for traveling in the Model A's. Our route today was going to take us from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan via farm country. Traveling along Lake Huron in the morning was so pleasant. It sure looked like an ocean with the big freighters sailing along the horizon.



We turned west at Port Sanilac to make our way to Lake Michigan. But first we had to take care of few errands, namely buying a new GPS. The one I brought would stop working at the most in opportune time...very frustrating. We stopped at Wal-Mart for me to get new GPS, Nan to get some cold medicine (what a time to get a cold), and Dick to get shampoo and a new Vodka Tonic tumbler (guess which one was on top of that list?)


With a new GPS to guide us we headed off into the heart of Michigan farm country. I could only imagine the desire Henry Ford had to develop a low cost tractor to help the farmers work those huge fields back then. Corn and soybean are now the crops of choice for almost as far as you could see, except for one farm with nothing but sunflowers - Dick said we needed sunglasses there. The roads were flat so travel was very easy on the Model A's and us (no wind).


We headed into Mt. Pleasant when we saw the beautiful Soaring Eagle Casino, wow was it big. We decided to stop, but at a Bob Evans for lunch instead of gambling. Continuing on we decided to head towards the National Forest which turned out to be a great move as the roads had no traffic and we finally were able to get OB to stop for Ice Cream. We had past at least 3 ice cream joints, one was even on the water at a marina...but nooo, Dick just blasted by it. Finally we stopped, almost by accident, at a great little place where we got our fix of some Michigan Ice Cream.


We arrived in Ludington about the same time I got a call from JJ, who said he and Shirley were also in Ludington and at a camp ground, which turned out to be next to the Best Western where we were staying. After Dick and I did some maintenance on the Model A's, we met JJ and Shirley at the Chinese Buffet for dinner.


Tomorrow, we will load our small group of the two Model A's and one Motorhome on the SS Badger for the crossing to Manitowic, WI.