I am behind on this blog. Basically I walk most of the day and then at night I don't have enough time to get the blog done. It stays light really late up here. I'm working on getting caught up!
One thing I didn't mention about our motel in Ontonagon was that there were two stuffed bears in the lobby area. It really creeped me out. One was up on his hind legs. The place had a nice sunset but the decor was not my cup of tea.
On Wednesday we left Ontonagon early and headed down 45 toward Watersmeet. Breakfast was pretty good, we stopped at a little place called Char's Cafe in Bruce Crossing. We made it down to Watersmeet and it definitely didn't have a lot going on. There was a trail that I think was actually a snowmobile trail but I walked on it. I was scared of bears but didn't see any. That is getting kind of tiresome that I'm so worried about bears. I need to get over it. Anyhow, it was early but still very hot already and I was proud of myself for getting the 5 miles done in Gogebic County.
I don't know what happened with this picture. This is the entrance to the trail in Watersmeet.
Then we drove to Crystal Falls which is the county seat of Iron County. It was a nice looking town built on a big hill. The county building was impressive. We found a small park with a boardwalk and Wes dropped me off and was going to try to find a place to check his email. Turned out the boardwalk wasn't very long and I was going to have to walk over the bridge and on the sidewalks up the hill to town. I didn't want to. It was hot, I was sticky, the hill was too high, couldn't do it. In the middle of my meltdown I talked to my daughter and she kind of reinforced that I didn't have to if I didn't want to. The thing was it was going to mess up my schedule because we had to be back at St. Ignace by Thursday night so I decided to skip 3 counties and drive directly to Escanaba since any rational person wouldn't be putting themself through walking in that heat. I think it was over 100 when you combined the humidity. So that's what we did. We went to Escanaba.
I loved Escanaba!!! We got a motel room and then went downtown which is right next to Lake Michigan. They had beautiful trails and beaches.
The two pictures above are along the walkway in the park. We sat on a shady quiet bench and I regrouped!
This is obviously the lighthouse. Escanaba was a very easy city to walk in with another park next to this lighthouse where they have kiosks and signs with explanations of the city's history. The downtown was pretty vibrant. Escanaba has the Upper Peninsula's State Fair which would be the only one now in Michigan since the one in Detroit isn't happening anymore.
Finally that day was over!!! The next day we finished up Delta County at Fayette Historic State Park which will be next blog.
I still have to do Iron, Dickinson and Menominee Counties in the Upper Peninsula. I was thinking that maybe I could take the Badger-the ferry from Ludington to Manitowoc this fall when it cools off.
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