The circle is now complete. We drove the remaining 311 miles to arrive home at just before 5pm. This last segment was a reminder why I usually try to avoid driving south on any major Michigan road on Sunday: half of Michigan is returning from “up north” and traffic is extremely heavy. Several significant slowdowns and a fiery crash that caused significant damage to an overpass and shut down the southbound lanes of US-131 by Big Rapids all served to extend our travel to nearly the entire day.
We stopped in St. Ignace to pick up some pasties and some whitefish and to stream our church service, and then at Burt Lake State Park to make lunch.
And it’s hot. 93 when we got home. Makes me want to turn right around and go back north to where it’s cooler. Why did we arrive back home three days early? Rain. I think it was the same system that caused significant flooding in Minnesota and shut down the Wisconsin State Fair that drove us out of Ontario
We drove a total of 2262 miles, taking two weeks to do so. Two weeks is not enough time, unless, of course it rains. There are a lot of things in the next-time bucket that could warrant a return trip, or at least a partial circle tour. We’ll see if that happens. There’s so much else we want to explore.
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