Travel

2021 Events are below. Our last trip was to the UP in August. Our next trip is scheduled for the Illinois River just north of Peoria. This will be our final camping trip of the season.

Day 8 - 8-7-21 - Oswald's Bear Sanctuary and Kayaking Pretty Lake with snakes!

On the way to Pretty Lake which is in the middle of the middle of nowhere we would pass the Bear Sanctuary so we stopped to check it out....

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Sep 23, 20212 min read

Day 7 - 8-6-21 - Whitefish Point and...

The plan for today was to do Whitefish point since we missed it earlier. We were also going to try to go to the Bear Sanctuary but we...

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Sep 23, 20211 min read

Day 6 - 8-5-21 - Grand Marias Beach

Since we are not going to bike Grand Island we decided to take it easy today and Logan wanted to go to a beach. Our camping neighbors,...

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Sep 23, 20211 min read

Day 5 - 8-4-21 - Pictured Rock Boat Tour / Sand Point Beach

Since we didn't get to do the pontoon boat and we couldn't kayak Pictured Rock we decided to take the official boat tour. Yeah, I don't...

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Sep 23, 20212 min read

Day 4 - 8-3-21 - Mackinac Island

Today we head East. The first day was West. Second day was North so today, off to the Island and we are taking our bikes. We are going...

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Sep 23, 20212 min read

Day 3 - 8-2-21 - Crisp Point Lighthouse and Tahquamenon Falls

Great day today.....we actually had 3 stops planned but the 1st stop to the lighthouse took a little longer than expected. Here is a map...

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Sep 23, 20212 min read

Day 2 - 8-1-21 - Munising Area

We are in the jungle in the middle of nowhere, about 2 miles north of Newberry, MI. Verizon has no coverage here so GPS on your phone,...

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Sep 23, 20212 min read

Day 1 - UP Michigan - Vacation Trip - 7-31-21

We left the house around 730am knowing it was going to be probably a 10-12 hour drive. We can only get around 150-175 miles before we...

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Sep 23, 20211 min read