Notice the change in scenery…no more rocks…been replaced by sand sand and more sand….Short run down the lake to Leland…FISHTOWN…busy though SMALL marina… a few interesting shops..and a historic fish town replica…we mingled then just hung…

It was a busy couple of days. The annual Arts and Craft show started Saturday morning. (We were able to visit before leaving.) Boyne City, the town at the other end of the lake, was hosting a cigarette boat poker run…soooo lots of go-fast boats in th…

Charlevoix was truly a special stop for us. A chance for me to catch up with a (no, I am not using the word OLD) Mary Kay friend that I had reconnected with on Facebook. Linda Bemis and her husband have a cottage in Charlevoix and spend their summers t…

Entering a busy Charlevoix channel was gonna be a challenge…just engines and gears….we were doing just fine til we misjudged the bridge opening by 4 minutes…that’s a long wait in a busy channel…finally they opened…we zipped through only to be…

Wind forecast and worries about traveling the Straits of Mackinaw got us up and at ’em at O’Dark Thirty…though all that was for naught. Looking at that bridge as the sun rose was an awesome sight….Our first day on Lake Michigan was smooth and easy…

Seems the Brits started all this at Mackinaw Island…and they seem to have left a little something behind…Floyd almost jumped off the carriage. He’d really like to own one of these phone booths though heaven knows where he’d put it???? A kind fellow…

We thought the trash truck pick up that we happened on was a hoot….and couldn’t resist that cute post office. We understand that there is no home delivery on the island…everyone comes to the post office to pick up their mail. Police ride bikes as w…

Mackinaw Island is a lovely little place…no cars allowed. The place was packed with tourists…walking, bicycling, riding horses, in horse-drawn carriages…restaurants, t-shirt shops, knik-knack shops, bike rental places…children, dogs, grandparen…