Texas Bound!

 

On the 25th of September we unhitched the Flying Scotsman from its final berth in Canada and headed south toward Texas via Michigan. This time we decided to do the west coast of Michigan from the top and then on southward.

Above is our view of the Mackinaw Bridge from our viewpoint on a bit of a cool and rainy day. I have pictures of my brothers and myself in 1957 viewing this bridge being completed which ended the fun ferry ride from the upper to lower peninsulas of this state.

And below is the pilot as we motored by Frankfort. The larger electronic device in front of me is the new Good Sam/Rand McNally GPS and it is more than wonderful ... a really useful and sophisticated device that takes GPS to an entirely new level, especially designed for the RV public.

After Frankfort and a really good Coney Dog at a roadside truck in Pellston we motored down the beautiful coast through Traverse City to Manistee. Manistee is a nice small coastal town that has been transformed through time really well.

We marveled at the abundance of petunias along all of the streets as there must have been millions of them on all major thoroughfares ... amazing and really pretty especially this late in the year.

With our day's journey ending at the Little River Casino in Manistee. This was a very nice park adjacent to the casino but fairly basic. Nice level concrete back in lots with easy access (valet bus to the slots) but no upscale landscaping ... just sand grass and burrs.

The upside was that in the RV park you are treated just as a hotel guest and have a card that allows you access to everything that a hotel guest would want including restaurants, pools, and other facilities.

Nice nite and quiet park for an enroute park and yet the pilot above is pointing to the next destination down the highway.