Yes, I know. Where is Part 3? Wrote it up in Word last night since I didn't have any wifi at the hotel. Tonight when I have wifi, blogger won't let me paste it in. It's late and Steve is already asleep so not gonna mess with it tonight. Will post it when I can.
We started out this morning in Ashland, Wisconsin, where we'd spent the night. Had planned to have breakfast at Country Kitchen but it was drizzling and decided to get going and hopefully get ahead of the rain. We continued east until almost to Michigan, when we headed north on a county road, destination Superior Falls (in Wisconsin) and a cache named Push the Michigan Limits - West (in Michigan, of course - the westernmost cache in the state and my Gogebic County cache for my nine remaining caches.) The falls are on one side of the Montreal River, the cache on the other. The road leads to Michigan just before the cache. Had to go down some unpaved road, then a steep trail down to the rocky beach. Not so much fun on the rocks in motorcycle boots! Found the cache, discovered the last previous finder was vj24, a cacher I know from Holland. Small world! Dropped a traveler, then back up the steep slope, saw the waterfall from the viewing area, then on to Ironwood, Michigan, just over the border about 12 miles away.
We stopped for a late breakfast in Ironwood where I found that the restaurant we ate at had wifi. I was able to download my gsak files, check my email, and log the trackables that I'd placed yesterday. Also quickly updated my facebook status and before you know it, we were done eating and time to move on.
We next stopped in Bergland, Michigan, in Ontanagon County - found another cache. 2 down, 7 to go! Then headed north to the Porcupine Mountains and the Lake of the Clouds. Beautiful scenery along the way and it only got better at Lake of the Clouds. There was a virtual there so a bonus : )
Continued on to Houghton - where I found a micro in an Applebee's parking lot which counted for Houghton County. Last previous cacher, also today, was another cacher that I knew from west Michigan - andrewceturner. Tempted to go into Applebee's to see if he was there but we moved on. Stopped just north of Houghton at a scenic area to take bike pictures. Another couple on a Gold Wing Trike stopped about the same time, they were from the Racine area.
Continued on up the Keweenaw Peninsula - turned west to Eagle River where we stopped for a great view of Lake Superior and another bike picture opportunity. This time two Gold Wings stopped about the same time as we did. They advised us not to miss the Brockway Mountain road at Copper Harbor. We took their advice and had a great view of the harbor. Found a cache coming down the road after the top of the mountain - Keweenaw County off the list! Had wanted to get the northern most Michigan cache but it wasn't to be. Copper Harbor didn't have much to do, so we headed back down the peninsula. Only problem was, we needed gas and there was none to be found.
The tank headed onto the reserve setting, and we were obviously getting concerned. Not sure what we would have done if we'd have run out of gas. Prayers worked - as we came across a bar at a crossroads that had a small sign "Premium Gas available" on the side. I almost didn't see it, Steve didn't believe me at first that a bar would be selling gas. We turned around, and Steve sent me inside to check. Gee, thanks for letting your wife go into the biker bar by herself....
Anyway, nobody inside but the owners, who turned on the pump and we pumped $11 worth, payable in cash only thank you, at $3.37 a gallon. We'd have probably paid $10 a gallon at that point!
With gas in tank again, we continued down. We arrived in Mohawk, Michigan, where Steve spotted the White House Motel. $55 for a very nice room, even decorated in the America theme. And free wifi, hence this timely post. We ate dinner at the White House Grill across the street, where they had some very interesting "themed" mixed drinks - the Monica Lewinsky, the Watergate, the Obama Mamma. All a bit strong and pricey for our tastes, we didn't partake. Just a nice big chicken dinner for Steve and steak for myself.
Our weather today, after the drizzly start, was probably the best of the trip. Not a lot of outright sunshine, but I would call it partly cloudy. We'll take it! Forecast for tomorrow calls for rain again, but it did for today so I'll take it with a grain of salt. Plans for tomorrow - the last five counties, I hope, or at least four of the five. Thinking we'll be home Thursday or Friday at the latest.
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