Almost home

We are getting closer to home. We traveled 277 miles all along Lake Michigan today. When we started this morning at 7:45 the temperature was 81 degrees. As we headed West on the Blue Star Memorial Hwy we traveled through Holland and then to Hemlock Crossing. We hiked at the Pigeon River Greenway State Park for a little while but the temperature had climbed up to 95 so we did not stay out long. As we neared Ludington we were impressed with the large rolling hills and best of all the temperature dropped to 75. We had lunch at a park, the went to another park with a huge sand beach and a light house. While finding a cache near the lighthouse we met another cacher with the tell tale GPSr in hand and geocaching shirt on. We struck up a conversation with him and found the cache together. Next we took a ride through the Sand Dunes, stopping along the lake shore to snap some photos. Continuing on the Lake Michigan Circle Tour we past through Manistee a Historic Victorian Port City and many small towns that did not have Mc Ds of any of the usual fair. We had many great views of the lake, mixed with forest and little beach towns.

At 5:00 we arrived in Traverse City, MI a college town a bit bigger than we expected. The temperature went back up into the 90's so we are staying in the AC. For dinner we went to Cracker Barrel, I had been wanting Jim to try one since he had never been to one before.