Day 22 Mackinow City...Return Journey begins

Mackinow Bridge

Birthday boy on the Historic trail

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Fort Mackinow

Ice Breaker and Birthday boy
All the kids left this morning and the home away from home became empty again. But, we have plenty to do and miles to go before we get home. So, we packed up and started the journey back. We are going up North and then will turn West and South at some point.

The journey started in rain and storm but slowly it the rain let up and by afternoon even a little bit of blue sky showed up.

We are in Mackinaw city, all the way up on the tip of Michigan and at the meeting point of lakes Michigan, Huron and Superior. The town used to be a fur trade center. Native Americans did the business with french and then the British showed up and messed up everything with their attitude , so there is a fort and fighting and no more native americans here.

Also, another interesting piece of information : They used to break ice into big blocks and transport it down to other states. It was a big thriving business till the refrigrator technology messed that one up. So, now it is only tourism and lots of it. Fortunately , the season just began yesterday so no one is here and we are really enjoying it.

The people are not here but there are some black insects ( millions of them) supposedly only of couple of weeks

The only issue is that the birthday boy is very tired and needs to recover from the "Obama" excitment.

I better stop blogging and let him sleep. Good night from top of Michigan.



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