September

Northeast '06 September, p.5

Thursday, September 21

Continuing driving along the western edge of Lake Huron. We're surprised about the number and size of the homes here. One development near Collingwood advertised homes starting in the $900,000's. We enjoyed the towns and beaches of two towns especially: Kincardine and Goderich. In Kincardine, we met a man cleaning up his property where he was building a replica of an English cottage. In Goderich, we enjoyed walking along the beachfront and the parks.

Along the lake, Canadian geese are starting to migrate southward, and we see them in the water alongside sea gulls: strange paring we never saw before. This is because the lake is so big, you can't see the other side, and the waves (tides too) make you think you are at the ocean.

At the bottom of the road, before the curve up the "thumb" of Michigan, we had to cross the toll bridge to Port Huron, where we found a Sam's parking lot to spend the evening.

We loved the brickwork on this building.

We were also surprised at the colors of the silver maples.

Friday, September 22

If you look at a map of Michigan, it looks like your left hand, and Michiganders refer to different parts of Michigan in reference to the hand. For example, they might point to a spot on their left hand with their right index finger, and say they lived there. Well, we spent the day driving along the thumb, and ended up at the inside knuckle.

There are plenty of wide and clean beaches along the coast here, and of course plenty of vacation and year-round homes. At the tip of the thumb, we passed the Pioneer sugar factory where we saw very large piles of sugar beets ready to be processed.

Water everywhere:

We found another Wal-Mart, actually a new supercenter just opened two days ago, near Flint, and decided to spend the night there, but not before taking time to enjoy the Wal-Mart "experience" that we have missed for a few months while in Canada. Well..... would you know it... the knock on the door... the dressing out of your PJ's... and driving down the road for another spot. It turns out that these new people at the Flint Wal-Mart were too new to understand that RV's do actually spend nights at Wal-Mart's. We found another at Shelbyville, and spent the night there!

Home at Wal-Mart

| previous page | home | next page |