Meandering to Mackinac, Day 2

Thursday, September 24

Woke up at the motel, got ready to go and had the motel breakfast. Then outta there. Realized that I could still do the Geography puzzle cache I'd solved before I left home as I did have the printout after all. So did two other Traverse City caches on the way to the Geography cache. Then was on my way out of town.

I was following the Lake Michigan shoreline (roughly anyway) today - did several caches right on the beach or shoreline. The weather was much better than yesterday, a great day to be out there caching. Around about Charlevoix, I looked at the time, looked at how many possible caches I had on my list, and thought about whether or not I wanted to cache in St. Ignace. I decided that I wanted to cache in St. Ignace more than in Emmet County (which I already had cache finds in anyway) so skipped quite a few caches on the list. Did a couple of travel bug hotels and that was about it until I got to Mackinaw City. I did go into town for one cache - because I knew that it was a two stage cache with the first stage in Mackinaw City, second in St. Ignace.

Then across the Mackinac Bridge I went. I really, really, really hate driving this bridge. But I like caching more than I hate driving the bridge. So went anyway. At least it was not a windy day. Crossed the bridge and kept going, up to a cache a few miles north of St. Ignace that I've tried to find at least three times without luck. I got some clues after my last attempt and they weren't quite accurate but helped enough that I did find the cache (Roger's Park) this time around. Back to St. Ignace after that and to Straits State Park. This was where we've held previous Mackinac Rendezvous events and it was really strange to be there without a bunch of boy scouts there as well. Did several caches in the park, then went across the "street" (I-75) to Father Marquette Park and did one there as well. Then back across the bridge and to the campground.

There were seven of us staying in one of the campground's cabins. Bathroom, shower, microwave, refrigerator. Only downside was sharing a bed with the scoutmaster's wife. She is nice but I don't know her all that well. We slept sideways on the double bed which gave everything but our feet more room.

Got online from the campground ($2.50 for 2 hours but I wanted to see if Scott had updated his Facebook with news he was back in Germany) and got some of the caches from the day logged.