Day #17
Our campground is four miles from the paved road of Thumb
Lake on a gravel road, flanked on each side by forest and fields. The landscape
dotted with homes, some looked abandon.
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| Sandhill Cranes |
These birds were in two different fields on the four mile gravel road, when we were leaving the campground. I don’t know what they are, but they were always in pairs and feeding early in the morning.
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| Always in pairs |
Today we headed toward Charlevoix (Char-Le-Vo), a town on Lake Michigan
and due west of campground. This was a touristy town with people on the busy
streets shopping, eating and visiting. This town reminded me of on one street Pigeon Forge. Shops and eateries along both streets and one street over. The difference with this town is the beautiful bay of Lake Michigan with motor and sail boats of various sizes and colors.
Near the center of town was situated the city park facing the lake. Green spaces for families to let children run and an amphitheater for concerts and the town clock. Children ran through the green grass under watchful eyes of parents in the city park.
We had lunch at Scovie’s Deli on main street. Doug had a “Fighting Irish”, a corn beef sandwich and I had a French dip with au jus. HUGE sandwiches, mine had ¾ to 1 pound of roast beef on it. Again this was another take home half for later meal!
A couple of the alleys were blocked off and designated for pedestrian traffic only. One for a restaurant and the other for socializing.
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| Hoop Skirt Alley |
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| Van Pelt Alley |
Driving out of town, doing our usual “let’s go another way”,
we happened upon these two homes. The first has a dragon on the roof and the
other was a “thatched” home. Very unique home structure in the middle of town.
We finished the day with a ride through Boyne Mountain, an
all-inclusive ski area. The slopes were very visible and accessible via a chair lift.
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| A ski slope |
Finishing up our left overs during a thunder-clapping rain storm, the power went out! We finished, cleaned up and Doug said Let’s get Whippy Dip. Instead of sitting around waiting for the power to come on, we drove to get the Whippy Dip ice cream. After ice cream, we stopped at Thumb Lake Park and took pictures of the sunsetting over the lake.
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| Jane wading in Thumb Lake at Sunset |
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| Our site at Chandler Hill Campground |
We finished the day with a ride through Boyne Mountain, an
all-inclusive ski area. The slopes were very visible and accessible via a chair lift.
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