One week

 

   We've been gone for a week. PH was working the Upper Peninsula and I went along for the ride.  It's a long ride but the scenery is so beautiful you just don't care you've been in the car for hours and hours. Well, hardly.  Sometimes the inside of the car just wasn't appealing.

    Our Great Lakes are huge and spectacular and Lake Superior is probably the most of the most. It's deeper, colder, wilder and bigger than all of the others.  I don't know if it ever gets warm enough for swimming.  But for raw beauty it can't be beat.

We stopped at a roadside pull out to walk a little, climb a little and shiver a lot.  For the most part it was sunny but very windy and cold with that wind bringing in the cold air over the lake.  We did some long walks, sightseeing, we ate well, stayed at quaint little roadside motels,

One of the things we time the route for is a stop on Tuesday at the grocery store in Mohawk.  They have the best pasties we've ever had so we stop first thing in the morning to get some for that day's meal.  They are so big we eat just once that day.  Usually we get four, one each to eat that day and two to bring home for the freezer.  But we are expecting this was his last selling trip so we brought four home for the freezer.

We stopped at a roadside when we just couldn't stand the wonderful smell coming from the back seat any longer.  It was like sitting inside the oven while Thanksgiving dinner is cooking.  Look at the size of them!  After stuffing ourselves we decided the four we brought home could be enough to split one between us when we eat them. 

While we ate this was our view on a cloudy and COLD day.  Very distracting!

 After driving over 1, 930 miles  I have 634 hexies to show for it.  I am a very impatient passenger and need something to keep me busy but it has to be mindless.  Two or three years I knitted, one year I made a bazillion yo-yos and this time I had lots and lots of these to keep me (and PH) sane.