14 June 2008
We are now at day 3 and when I reflect on it, it feels as though we’ve been on the road for longer. The days have been full indeed.
We left Nairn a little later than the 11am deadline but no worries we were ON OUR WAY on the MUCH ANTICIPATED trip. We headed west to Sarnia, the border city in Ontario. The day was sunny and clear and the view from the top of the bridge gave us a thrill. I hadn’t dared think about what it might be like to get through US customs. We had stocked up on food and had none of the not permitted fresh fruit, veges or meat. All went very smoothly though and our “nothing to declare” satisfied the kindly woman at the post whose son lives in Campbell River on Vancouver Island.
We spent our first night at the Cadillac Woods campground in Michigan, a small private campground with very few people, as the season hasn’t really started yet. We were startled in our sleep with 2 major thunder and lightning storms, which lit up our trailer with a light and sound show. Eric was thrilled by it but I tried hard to stay asleep and not imagine us going up in flames.
Friday’s drive was only about an hour to Betsie River campground near Frankfort and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. We spent the afternoon on an exploratory and very scenic drive stopping at a view point to look down a steep 400ft or so amazing dune to Lake Michigan. A group of people had climbed down and were now climbing back up on all fours.
Today (Matt’s birthday) we did a very strenuous hike up and down numerous such dunes (4 miles that felt like many more) to Lake M. I walked in bare feet and it wasn’t long before the heart rate was UP. I particularly enjoyed the various dune grasses, shrubs and wild flowers and just wished I could identify more. The lake was a glorious palette of tones going from a milky aqua at the beach all the way to indigo and violet at the horizon. Eric and I were pretty beat at the end of that but it was SO worth it.
Photos will appear soon once we get the hang of all of this.
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2 comments:
so i could have come to nairn to wave you off after all!! wish i'd called :(
your description of hiking in & out of the dunes reminds me of tom and i hiking into the grand canyon and being quite close to crawling back out!
how are the mini curtain rods working out?
raven
Raven, The curtain rod works really well in the fridge. Thanks so much for the tip. keep the comments coming.
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