2nd Part of Tour of the Lighthouses

This is Whitefish Point lite house and the least attractive. There was a museum here that showed a lot of wrecked ships. This point saw more wrecks than any other place in the 5 lakes. Congestion, storms, smoke were 3 of the causes.










This lite house is Crisp Point. VERY remote. I had already warned John there might be some dirt or gravel roads. But this far exceeded dirt. More like mud (we all know how he feels about mud) holes. Of course it had stormed the night before. But was that my fault?

Anyway they have volunteers that man this litehouse and I must say I admire them. This week-end was a family in a pop-up tent. One of the boys said there was to be a wedding there next week-end.



Can you imagine going on this road for (it seemed like 40) 8 miles and then parking for maybe 4 cars at the likehouse?








We really laughed when we came to this, as the tracks you see are 4 wheelers. We did see boxes for telephones, but didn't see electric poles. Maybe all underground.
That is the fun in these trips, never know what you will see and if you will get out alive.
Will probably watch the cargo ships the next couple of days, that is how long it will take John to get all the mud off the suv

Lighthouse Tour

I have had more trouble with this darn blog. If you see pictures w/o descriptions, I don't know why. It seems to have a mind of its own

Anyway we went lighthouse touring Saturday. Very interesting places and remote. I have no idea what pictures you will seeing. I tried to delete these that you see, as I was experimenting. So you may see every picture I took! Hopefully not, but the way this day has been going, there are lots of gremlins in here. (That is what I get for not going to church ... instead did TV)



Our first stop was Point Iroquois, it had a display of living quarters of the 50's, it was fun remembering that we had some of those things in our house also.
These are our friends Bill and Marilyn traveling with us. Of course they may not anymore after this day. I said it would be about 140 miles to see 3 lighthouses roundtrip and it turned out to be 230 .





This litehouse was very well kept and in good shape. There is a society nonprofit that keeps these litehouses up.






There should be pictures of Whitefish Point and Crisp Point, but I don't see them. There are 2 pictures of a sailing brig and its crew. We were eating at a HB place (curb service!) and it went sailing by. It is owned by the commonwealth of Penn. It is a sailing school and ages 14 and above can sign on for 2-4 weeks. The time is 1800's and the info says the working of the shop under sail and the spartan living conditions onboard are authentic. The brig (not ship) is named the US Brig Niagara. I'm going to publish this and see what comes up. Hope it makes sense. If not, what else is new!

Our View of the "Soo" Ships

This is what we see on the St Marys river.

This shows how close we are when the ships go by
It is pretty awsome to sit behind the coach, drink coffee and wonder how on earth man can build a cargo ship 1000 ft long and then guide the thing down a river less than a mile wide. The locks are about 2 miles from here, we will go tomorrow and watch them go thru. Really I could sit and watch them all day.
There are about 6 or so every day. No time schedule, just all of a sudden you see them coming. That is another thing, they are very quiet.

More later

Satellite Fixed: Parked in 4 Sites in 2 Days

Here is John killing time waiting on the verdict for the satellite. After
2 hours came and told us found the problem and it would cost 150
dollars to fix it. Don't those people know us: that we will pay anything
to get our satellites up and going! ' Anyway it was repaired and was

heading home about 4. It worked perfectly on the way to the park, but
after we got into the park and all the trees we lost it. Parked in the
our friend told us he ALWAYS got it and we couldn"t. So stayed there for the night and tried another site, that looked promising, but to no avail. So finally went out in a field and it was good. After we got set up again, I went swimming. When I came back and went in the coach, the air conditioner sounded funny. So called John in and he looked at the meter and was in the red. So now we discovered we have a priority over the satellite ..... electricity.

So after the 4th try, here we are. We got really good (not that we weren't already) at getting ready to roll. It was almost as if we were practicing for a competition.
Also forgot to mention there is pickleball! We played yesterday and yes sored up. Took 2 aspirin for breakfast and was good to go. Sure have missed it.
Oh yes, finally got the awnings sewed. That is another story.
Later

Michigan Travels (or travails)

We left the CC rally Saturday morning early. Eight new coaches were sold and 26,ooo dollars was raised for the Cedar Rapids flood. I was surprised about the coaches, figured everyone was tightening up the purse strings because of high fuel. Wehad a good time at the rally especially seeing old friends.

When we left headed for Kalamazoo, MI. Michigan is a beautiful state, but getting there was a nightmare. Interstate 80 was horrible thru Iowa, Ill, Ind and Mi. There was a crash and when I checked it one of the bathroom lamps had (I guess) vibrated off and fell in the sink. When we got to the campground finished cleaning up the glass. Saturday night I went to bed at 9:00 (John kept telling me it was only 8). I didn't care if it was 6, I was so tired and sleepy. Rallys just wear me out ... I enjoy them, but all the sitting and going from seminar to home to seminar ....
Did I mention that we have no awing covers on the drivers side windows? They came apart while we were in Pigeon Forge. So have been looking for a repair place since then. Thought we had found one in Tx, John dropped them off one day, then a week later went by to pick them up and the guy hadn't even looked at them. So you can imagine how happy John was. I could tell whem he came out with them under his arm that something was unsatisfactory.
We are in a TT campground St Clair and it is pretty nice. Right off I=94, I thought it would be noisey, but not the case. Our friends Bill and Marilyn are here, we are going to travel up to Saulte St Marie (in futher posts that will THE SOO) together.
Oh yes forgot to mention that our satellite didn't work when we got to the TT campground and now we are sitting at a repair place getting it looked at. It costs 15o dollars up front to look at it and diagnose the problem. So far (from the way it looks) they have started the generator, turned on the air, left the front door open and left. So John went to check on THAT and was told that a gage that was needed to check the satellite is missing and they are looking for it. So John asked (politely I'm sure) if they could shut the gen and air off until they were working on it. They said "Oh sure!"
Will keep you posted on how THIS turns out.