We hit 9000 miles yesterday as we left Wisconsin and got into Michigan. Traveled across the top of Lake Michigan yesterday and came down into Mackinaw City on the Lake Huron side of Michigan.
On our way here we had an “encounter” with a turkey. He was starting to cross the road and at the last minute, flew up and struck our passenger side mirror, taking it out. I thought for sure he was coming through the windshield. There is no way we can get it fixed before we get home so needless to say, it will result in some interesting travel challenges when we are on multi-lane highways. Have had to call the insurance company and the whole nine yards. Damn Turkeys.
Today we went to Mackinac Island. Very pretty place. Reminds me a lot of a typical coastal community in Maine. They have a huge old hotel there called the Grand Hotel which has the longest covered porch in the world. You could go there and sit on the porch and even go into the hotel for a fee of $12. Well, today they were having a Michigan Democratic Convention there and they weren’t allowing anyone into the hotel. However, we didn’t know they weren’t allowing you on the porch either. Randy and I had walked around to the side of hotel and from there walked on the porch. Now granted, everyone there was wearing some kind of official badge but we just sauntered down through the crowd figuring we’d just exit on the other end. There was no exit on the other end and as we were turning around to go back to the main stairs to leave a gentleman from security stopped us, told us we weren’t supposed to be there and walked us to the nearest steps. Damn politicians.
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