Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was our destination today. We started with a 3-mile hike through the forest and sand dunes, ending at a beautiful spot on Lake Michigan.…
Timber Ridge is a pretty cool campground with lots of activities that the boys are really enjoying. The morning started off with them biking on the trails and checking out the pickleball and manmade lake.…
Rob went for a run and the rest of us did a little wandering in the campground before heading out to our next stop, Traverse City, a leisurely drive at less than three hours.…
Today was a big day: up early in Sault Ste. Marie to do the one-hour drive to St. Ignace to catch the ferry to Mackinac Island.…
Kelly collects the national park tokens at each of our stops. Getting this one (Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore) was more of an adventure than most.…
Today was another very long drive day, and as it’d turn out, quite a warm one. Fortunately, it was also a holiday for Rob, so the driving could be split between us.…
Last night, a friendly neighbor shared that there’s a website with the opening schedule for the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge.…
Last night we added a small fan in each boy’s bed to help them stay cooler and hopefully sleep better. They both said they indeed slept better, and they’ve continued to sleep past 8 a.m.…
Another lesson learned. It was a three-hour drive day and the roads (mostly MN State Highway 200) were SO bumpy. Turns out we should have looked at the map closer, because just 15 minutes out of the way US-2, which would have likely been much smoother.…
Luckily the thunderstorms ended up going south of us, so we only had a little rain overnight.
Taking advantage of another weekend day, we decided to break out the inflatable kayaks!…