2023 Maine Trip
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A Walk Around Mackinac Island Perimeter
The paved road (M-185) around the island for biking and hiking is 8.2 miles long. With side paths and steps up to views, we ended with a 10-mile walk. We used a blog at flowerchick .com to track our progress. Here is our journey starting at Mile Marker 0. Mile Marker 1 was on the…
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Pictures let you travel back:)
Cell phone cameras have clearly gotten better over the past 8 years! I just had to include the above shots of Mom and Dad and Tony and me in our fancy clothes. I love this shot of my parents:)
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Tasty pasties and a lighthouse
We had a misty morning, and were grateful that we had chosen yesterday to walk the road around Mackinac Island. We set off on the St. Ignace boardwalk to see the Wawatam Lighthouse and the downtown shops. There are 80+ sunken ships out in the straits and a memorial to sailors and ships lost in…
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A Magnificent Mushroom in Oscoda/Tawas KOA
We had a rainy day of travel to Oscoda, MI. The nice thing that Michigan does on these two-lane state highways is put in roadside parks and scenic turnouts that are maintained by their DOT. It provides pretty places to stop and stretch or make lunch. There was a nice paved bike trail that connected…
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Deja vu in Bay City and Port Huron
We stopped for a long walk and lunch at the river walk in Bay City. I knew it would be a nice place as we have pictures from coming here during the Niagara Falls trip a year ago. We almost glimpsed some sunlight while here. We spent the night in the Cracker Barrel parking lot…
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The Rusty Nickel Brewery, Buffalo, NY
The fastest way from Michigan to New York is through Canada. The immigration officer letting us into Canada asked about tobacco and alcohol this time (last time it was weapons) and she wasn’t concerned at all about pets. She didn’t look at their immunization certificates; maybe because we were just driving through. We saw a…
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Fingerlakes Wine Country in New York
Our first stop today was at the Finger Lakes Welcome Center in Geneva along Lake Seneca. They actually have wine tasting right there in the visitor’s center! There are sooooo many wineries in the area it will be hard to choose in our brief time here. Put it on the revisit list:). Tony says we…
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Kayaking and More Wine
The Waterloo KOA campground has kayaks for rent onsite, and the canal that connects Seneca Lake to Cayuga Lake is wide and deep enough for bigger boats as one passed us on its way to Seneca Lake. There is a lock and dam in the town of Waterloo, and we kayaked to that point from…
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Evening “Stroll” with a view
We drove into the Adirondack Mountain region of New York today and it is so beautiful! The outcropping rock we drove by looked like the shale we saw in MN near Duluth and it was very mossy and seeping water drips/runs down the face. The roads are tree-lined and follow along creeks, rivers and lakes.…
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Pre-Revolutionary War History at Crown Point, NY
Our campsite is near some French and British fort ruins at a narrow spot on the New York side of Lake Champlain where the Champlain Bridge sits. The purpose of Fort St.-Frederic, built by the French in 1734, was to stop British colonization so the French could maintain control of the lake. That worked until…