Last day and home

We were on the road by 7:15 this morning. After a quick stop for some "Ivarest" a highly recommended poison ivy itch relief cream we headed through several port towns along Lake Michigan. Our first stop was the Charlevoix, first to see the Worlds' Largest Pie, now just a pan and fake pie and then into town. We learned that the draw bridge is lifted every 30 minutes as needed. The parade of huge yachts we saw go through proved it was needed often. All walking and driving traffic stops until the boats are safely through and the bride is back down.

Mackinaw City was our next stop, before crossing the bridge we stopped for a letterbox and geocache at a wayside. Then off to a light house before paying the $3.00 toll to get to the Upper Pennisula of Michigan. Once over the bridge we stopped at a wayside with a great view of the bridge, ate a picnic lunch and got back on the road again.

We stopped for a few more geocaches at waysides just to stretch out a bit. In Gladstone we filled up with gas at $2.76 per gallon.

Once we hit Escanaba we felt like we were home, but we still had some more miles to put on. Dinner was at our favorite Country Kitchen in Iron Mountain at 6:00 and by 7:15 we crossed the border into WI. We knew we were nearing home when several times we had to hit the breaks for white tail deer on the road.

At 8:30 we pulled into the driveway, unpacked, opened all the windows... and got at the e-mail. Now to start planning our next adventure.