This morning, Tuesday, July 22, 2008, we left Indian Shores Campground on Lake Tomahawk for the U P of Michigan. We decided to follow route 70 into Michigan and pick up route 2 to head East.
Our journey was going along well until we got to Eagle River, WI. For whatever reason, I turned onto route 17 North instead of staying on route 70. I guess I had a brain fart... In case you didn't know, farting is considered a sport in the U.P. Anyway, Leah grabbed the map, looked and saw we could still connect up with route 2 by staying on route 17, but the road would narrow down somewhat before reaching route 17..
We were moving down the road enjoying the passing landscape when all of a sudden the road ahead of turning to dirt. Oh my, I put on the breaks and knocked things off the chairs and the bed bring the motorhome to a stop. Just before I had to make a panic stop, I thought I saw a very small sign point to a road on the left that would lead to route 2. Since I was past the road I had to do something you do not want to do in a motorhome towing a car, backing up... I was very lucky and was able to backup far enough to make the left turn to continue. I was also lucky in the fact that nobody was behind us at the time.
We connected up with Route 2 without any additional gaffs on my part. We arrived in Iron Mountain, Mi about lunch time and passed a Chicago Hot Dog Shop. Just a little ways past it was an information center that we pulled into and parked. We walked back to the hot dog shop, but it had went out of business, bummer. We really had our minds set to have hot dogs for lunch and the shop being closed was a big disappointment. Luck was with us today however as we spotted a hot dog cart around the corner, so we purchased some hot dogs and took them back to the motorhome for lunch. We knew they were not the Chicago style hot dogs, but they were very good none the less.
As we were eating our lunch, we looked at a Michigan campground directory and decided to head for a campground about 16 miles East of Escanaba, Mi. As we passed through Escanaba, we saw a sign for the Pioneer Trail Park which has camping and picnicking. We decided to pull in and give it a look to see if we could get a site for the night. We pulled in and had to self-register and pick out a site. As we were looking at several possible sites, a truck pulling a fifth wheel trailer and a boat pulled out so we pulled into that site for the night. The power boxes don't look the best, but since we now have the electrical management system installed we feel a lot safer plugging in.
There are several fishermen camped here to take part in a Walleye fishing tournament being held in Escanaba over the next three days. Also, a group was making some kind of video tape at one of the nearby sites. The temps is mild enough that we don't need to run our air conditioning.
