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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…

photo…We spent a warm afternoon exploring an old lighthouse and fort in Mackinaw City…saw the bridge from shore. It is quite a sight to see…the longest in the USA. They have quite a few tours to see it but we figured we’d get our best view from u…

photo….Somehow I managed to convience Floyd to explore the ice breaker alone this morning. I worked on marina reservations and such while he went off to learn all he could about ice breakers. We were all happy. We came out of TUMBLEWEED at 10:30 to b…

We’ve had it all today. Left DeTour Village at O’dark thirty in clouds and a calm breeze…then wind and rain…lightening off to our starboard side…then sunshine and heat. Spent the afternoon exploring Mackinaw City…the fort and an old light house…