Month: June 2021

This post is going to be a short one. Mainly because there isn’t a lot to say and there’s no need to bore you. We are in Cheboygan finishing up boat chores. Some expected, others unplanned spur of the moment types- the kind you get a lot of on boats. We will head out of here on Sunday and begin our summer travels.

After 45 days in the RV, we arrived in Cheboygan and immediately doubled our living space by moving back onto Subject to Change. What a great feeling. While we do enjoy the rig, it’s nice to have the extra space.

In my last post, we had just survived a wicked storm in the Badlands and were heading toward St Paul for our annual visit with the aunts and uncle. To be honest, I am delayed in posting because there hasn’t been anything dramatic or hugely scenic to report.

Eastern South Dakota is definitely farm country and corn seems to be the preferred crop.

We did make a pit stop in Mitchell, South Dakota at the world’s only corn palace.

The murals that adorn the outside and the inside of this one of a kind display are made entirely of corn.

We planned a detour before heading to St. Paul and drove to Duluth. We have heard that the road from Duluth up along Lake Superior’s coast was amazing and we hoped to make that drive. Unfortunately the weather was very uncooperative. The forecast turned cold and rainy and we couldn’t see making the drive under those conditions. So south was the way to go and we headed off the see the relatives.

While Tim enjoyed outings with Uncle Ray,

I enjoyed visiting with the aunties and looking at the beautiful garden.

As you’ve learned, we don’t do a lot of prebooking as we travel. Most of the time we have a rough idea of where we’ll be at a certain time, but we don’t want to commit. Memorial Day weekend was not going to be one of those times. Early in our planning, we knew we would need to commit to where we would spend this holiday weekend other wise we might be camping at Walmart. We chose Baileys Harbor, Door County, Wi for the long weekend. We visited this area last year and really enjoyed being by the water and the cute towns in Door County. We chose Baileys Harbor because it has a nice campground within easy biking distance to the town and it has one of our favorite breweries on the peninsula.

We rode the bikes to the Cana Island Lighthouse. Because the still active lighthouse is on a small island, we took the wagon ride over the shallow ledge that connects it to the mainland.

Being in Door County, we had to stop for a favorite, Door County Trolley Red Cherry Lager.

After Door County, we went back to familiar territory that we had visited last year, but didn’t get to enjoy as much as we wanted. We spent a couple nights at Grand Marais and then went to Munising so we could take a tour boat ride out to the Pictured Rocks.

At Grand Marais, we stayed at Woodland Park campground along the southern bank of Lake Superior.

Pictured Rocks:

The morning after our boat tour as we sat contemplating where we would go next when we got a call from Walstroms Marina asking if they could drop our boat in a few days early. That was a unified YES. They would get the boat in the water and we would make the 3 hour drive to Cheboygan to once again be back aboard. It was an easy decision.

So we are now back at the Cheboygan County Marina checking the boat chores off our list and enjoying seeing friends from last year. We’re thinking we’ll be here about a month and then head out somewhere. There is talk that Canada may let us in by July. But it’s only talk at this point. We know we’ll spend July 4th in St. Ignace with friends. After that, who knows?