Computerwise this has been the most aggravating week! Our internet is down at home. We have Hughesnet because we live way out in the boondocks where men are men and women get to sit at home and be bored because there is no internet! Grrr! So I'm sitting at Panera trying to get the second half of my blog for last weekend done. It's only Thursday....

Okay so the last time I was at Big Rapids and on Sunday morning I got up and checked out and this is what I saw in the parking lot. I was very impressed by the off road muddiness of this Jeep. It looks like our cars in March...being in the boondocks that's what our cars look like about 9 months out of the year.
I headed up 131 to Reed City which is another little city on a former rail line. They have done a beautiful job of fixing up their old depot. It looks like it's used as a community center and the restrooms were fancy which was really refreshing. Reed City is where the White Pine Trail and the Pere Marquette Trail intersect so I walked on both. It was early in the morning so it was pleasantly cool.

There is a General Mills factory in the middle of town and it said Yoplait on it so I was excited! Yay Yoplait!!!


Here is a view of the depot.

There is a covered bridge on the White Pine Trail. Very pretty!!

Then I headed up to Cadillac which is in Wexford County. I am familiar with this county because a branch of Wes' father's family is from there. His great great grandfather was a doctor in Manton which is up the road from Cadillac. I decided to leisurely walk in Cadillac and not have a repeat of the previous day. So I started at a local cafe and had a delicious sandwich and walked around downtown then I headed for Lake Cadillac which is right downtown and they have a really nice walkway.

The dock on Lake Cadillac.

There is a tributary walk along Clam River. Very shady and scenic!

More on Clam River Greenway.

Another dock.


I finally got the 5 miles done in Cadillac then headed back down to Edmore in Montcalm County to finish up the 2nd half of that walk that I wimped out on the day before. Then I came home.

I'm hurrying because Panera is getting crowded and I don't want to hog the table.