July 31st was a really pretty blue moon and it has been a nice, productive lay over to clean out the spiders and re-provision. We are 1 mile (flat land) from town with a few good restaurants, and 2 miles from Walmart and Walgreens. The bikes have gotten quite the work out. A salmon fishing tournament has been out of our marina and we were hoping to buy some fresh catch off the fishermen. No fish from the fishermen but a new item we have found in Northern Michigan—Kathy’s Pasties-- they keep advertising these here on the radio—a pot pie calzone --http://kathyspastie.com/what-is-a-pastie. We have also found a great Oldies radio station Easy 106.3 —Elvis, Muscrat Love, Lionel Ritchie. As we ride out the storm here at Cheboygan, we are hoping all our friends are not crossing Lake Huron right now and are safe in a protected marina or harbor--the storms and wind come up fast. We spent this time planning our August and knowing that if we remain flexible then Lake Michigan will be a lot of fun with new territory to explore. After leaving Mackinaw Island on the 9th, this is the VERY loose plan—Beaver Island (Anch), Harbor Springs (Anch), Charlevoix (Marina), Sleeping Bear Point (Anch), Frankfort (Marina-Provision), Manistee Lake (Anch), Pentwater (Anch or Snug Harbor Marina), Whitehall (Anch), Gran Haven (Marina), Saugatuck (Anch), then on to Chicago where we hope to meet Katie and the kids on Sept. 3rd for a run at the big Windy City. Fitz says we have to ride our bikes in the rain every once in a while- I guess to prove our meddle. So we took off for our last trip to the grocery since it was in between storms and we had no power to the dock. The town had had quite a damaging wind and rain. We got a little wet—what the heck, we are boaters.
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| Big storm damage in town |
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| They had this in firewood by the time we came back after the trip to the store |
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| Our dock here at Cheboygan County Marina |
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| Those in orange are not UT Vols--they are the salmon fishermen |
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