July 1-4, 2006
We took off to Michigan for a four day excursion. 1100 miles and a short stint in Canada.
We went to Holland MI Friday night. Then to Mackinaw city Saturday. Sunday on Mackinac Island, Monday to Canada and then back to Mackinaw City back to Holland again. Tuesday from Holland back to Yorkville.
Here is the bridge that makes this all famous. $2.50 each way for a normal car, goes up from there. 4.0 miles long, finished in 1957. Connects Mackinaw City Mi to St. Ignace Mi.
Light house in Mackinaw City (near the bridge)
Thuper Ate (Fancy digs) hotel. We stayed here. Ok, Super 8 for those who don't have my lissspppp..
Somebody with a wad of cash is building this on the waterfront. I'm pretty sure it's a home, has a view of Macinac island and the bridge, walking to down town... $$$$
Trivia... Mackinaw City, but Macinac island... both are pronounced "Mack-In-Awe"... Why the difference?
We backed the Prius up to the water in this pretty exclusive beach front and sat in the hatchback watching the water roll in, the sunset and a view of the bridge. Pretty nice... They don't do that in Tikrit.
Doubles hang gliding... Time is up on the trivia question. Mackinaw is the British spelling... Mackinac is the French spelling. Both are said the same, but the French use a silent c on the end.
In the middle, the bridge snapped, so that's duct tape to hold it together. :-) They are doing some kind of work there..
The Grand Hotel. Super famous, super expensive in every way..
Two things. A light house as we approach Macinac island, and a State-Line brand ferry with it's trademark jet thing.
No cars on the island, you ride this kind of tourist thing pulled by the 2 horses.
The old steam powered fire engine. How long did it take to get the water hot enough to turn the pump? Weird..
The butterfly conservatory.. It was pretty cool.
They ran out of space down town so they moved the cemetery up to the center of the island in the late 1800's..
Some natural arch we all took a look at.
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awwwww...
This larger 3 horse tram took us on part of our tour.
The view from the fort. It's amazing they could hit the Indians down there. It seemingly would be a good shot to hit them with a modern day 22 rifle.
And how did they ever hit anything with this?
This is in Canada... Some rich fur trader owned this thing.
Stone house on the left, the weird high rise thing on the right.
We had a good time, saw part of the world we hadn't seen before.. fun...