Lake Gogebic, MI 7-25

This place in Herbster was so nice we considered staying another day, but we decided to move on down the road. We hit the road at 9:15. We headed east on 13. Drove through historic Bayfield; gorgeous old mansions and touristy shops. Then hit Washburn, which was bigger and they had an IGA market there, so we pulled in and got the staples of our life: milk, bread, natural peanut butter and produce. We also ran across a lovely little coffee place so I had to run in there and get latté. It was very good. After Washburn we hit highway 2 again and headed east. Ashland was a large, pretty town. Now that we are east all the towns seem to be old and historic. Ashland had a Walmart so we stopped there for stuff we needed and then continued east. We had checked out a couple of county parks but they didn’t call to us so we kept on going. We fueled up at the Bad River Indian Reservation (the rez’s fuel is always cheaper), $2.949.

Hey, Uncle Gene! This is for you because you always want to know how the truck is doing. Today our trucks odometer turned past 50,000 miles. We are one month short of having it for three years.

We crossed over into Michigan and stopped at the visitors center to get the scoop on what to see here on the Upper Peninsula and the “mitten”. Fuel in Michigan is HIGH. Regular was $3.09-3.159 and Diesel is $3.07. We found somewhere to pull over in Bessemer and made lunch. In Wakefield we caught highway 28, the northern route across the peninsula. We took 64 south along the west shore of Lake Gogebic. Lake Gogebic is the UP’s largest inland lake. We are in the Ontonagon county park and it is lovely. Twelve dollars a night for just electrical hook-up, but the sites are spread out nicely and there are trees all around; we are in an open area so we could get a good satellite shot. We haven’t decided how long we will hang out here.

When we got here the clouds were building, it was 94 and humid. We were dripping wet by the time we got set-up. Lar doing the outside and me doing the inside. As the clouds kept building they blocked the sun so it cooled off a bit and we took a little walk to scope out the lake and campground and to put our money in the self-pay box. It had started to rain as we were walking back to the trailer. We got a really good hard rain for about a half hour after dinner. They are in drought here too, so the rain was welcome.

We lost another hour today. We are now in the Eastern Time zone. Pictures will get added later...hopefully.