We’re in the Traverse City Michigan area. Benzonia is a small town about 25 miles away and where our campground is located. This is a fish camp and the catch from the past few weeks is salmon. I’m going to show my fishing ignorance here, having spent last summer in Alaska, I didn’t know that salmon would/could be exclusively a fresh water fish. Apparently they stay out in Lake Michigan for the majority of their lives and then come into local streams to spawn. The fisher men and women in this campground are all smiles, there’s plenty to go around at the moment.
For our first outing we went to see two close-by lighthouses. You can imagine with as much shoreline as is around the Great Lakes, they have lots of lighthouses and are built uniquely for the lake shore and not sea shore. One of the biggest details I’ve noticed is the height; these are usually only 3 to 4 stories.
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| Frankfort Lighthouse |
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| Point Benzie Light house |
Later the same day we went to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Driving around the Scenic Drive we again saw huge sand dunes on the lake shore and numerous maritime museums and displays. Did you know that before there was the US Coast Guard there was an organization called The US Lifesaving Service? I didn’t, but these two organizations are critical to these areas.
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| Covered Bridge from Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive |
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| Sandy inclined shoreline on Lake Michigan |
After a couple days set aside for rest and chores we rendezvoused with Carol and Darrel, two good camping friends from our Texas camping chapter and toured the downtown Traverse City area. Among many attractions we found some interesting shopping and yet another lighthouse a few miles from town. Oh, yes we have the t-shirt to prove it.
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| Lifeboat US Lifesaving Service, predecessor to US Coast Guard | |
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| Light house 18 miles north of Traverse City MI |
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An update on our adventure with Amazon. We have been called to start on October 2, just a short couple weeks away! Our plans for the next few weeks are to tour facilities that produced both the chassis and the coach for our RV. After that the plan is to work in the Campbellsville Kentucky distribution facility until December 23 when the contract is over. Hopefully we’ll take a few trips during that time and we can post entries to this blog, but we expect the work will put a big crimp into our blogging energy and material.
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| Eastern shore of Lake Michigan is great for sunsets! |
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