Just re-read my last post, realized it had been after midnight when I posted. So it looks like I've posted twice in one day, but not really...
We got a "leisurely" start today - it was after nine before Steve woke up. We got ourselves together, ate a scone from the office of the hotel, then ate breakfast at the cafe next door. By the way, if you ever find yourself in the Keweenaw Peninsula, two words of advice: make sure you have a full tank of gas; and stay at the White House Motel in Mohawk.
Headed down the road after our breakfast (it was almost noon by then) and stopped in Baraga for another cache. We had thought about trying to get to Mt. Arvon, Michigan's highest point, and started up the road in that direction. After about 10 miles, we had to turn off onto a road that had less than optimum conditions for a touring motorcycle. Knowing we still had about 7 miles to go and the roads were only going to get worse, we opted to turn around. Back to L'Anse and on to Houghton. We followed 41 down to 141, where we turned south so that I could pick up caches in Iron and Dickinson Counties. Not part of the circle tour, but definitely part of finishing up the 83 county challenge. It was great that Steve agreed to go two hours out of the way for nothing but two caches. The Iron County cache was at a memorial for Airborne veterans. Would have probably not known it was there except for the geocache. After finding the Dickinson County cache, headed north on MI-95 and joined up with 41/28 just west of Marquette.
Found my Marquette County cache at a Gander Mountain store that had a little pond in front with a fake birdhouse where the cache was hidden (by the Gander Mountain people, apparently.)
Then we stopped for a relatively early dinner at Big Boy just down the road, and found a motel just east of Marquette. It has a pool and wifi so even though its a bit rundown IMHO, it'll do for the night.
Tomorrow we plan to stop in Munising so that I can find MY LAST CACHE for the county challenge. Ok, you just get a little pin for finishing but to me it's an accomplishment. Took me almost 5 years to do - June 29th will be my 5th caching anniversary. Looks very much, almost certain, that we'll be home tomorrow night.
We got a "leisurely" start today - it was after nine before Steve woke up. We got ourselves together, ate a scone from the office of the hotel, then ate breakfast at the cafe next door. By the way, if you ever find yourself in the Keweenaw Peninsula, two words of advice: make sure you have a full tank of gas; and stay at the White House Motel in Mohawk.
Headed down the road after our breakfast (it was almost noon by then) and stopped in Baraga for another cache. We had thought about trying to get to Mt. Arvon, Michigan's highest point, and started up the road in that direction. After about 10 miles, we had to turn off onto a road that had less than optimum conditions for a touring motorcycle. Knowing we still had about 7 miles to go and the roads were only going to get worse, we opted to turn around. Back to L'Anse and on to Houghton. We followed 41 down to 141, where we turned south so that I could pick up caches in Iron and Dickinson Counties. Not part of the circle tour, but definitely part of finishing up the 83 county challenge. It was great that Steve agreed to go two hours out of the way for nothing but two caches. The Iron County cache was at a memorial for Airborne veterans. Would have probably not known it was there except for the geocache. After finding the Dickinson County cache, headed north on MI-95 and joined up with 41/28 just west of Marquette.
Found my Marquette County cache at a Gander Mountain store that had a little pond in front with a fake birdhouse where the cache was hidden (by the Gander Mountain people, apparently.)
Then we stopped for a relatively early dinner at Big Boy just down the road, and found a motel just east of Marquette. It has a pool and wifi so even though its a bit rundown IMHO, it'll do for the night.
Tomorrow we plan to stop in Munising so that I can find MY LAST CACHE for the county challenge. Ok, you just get a little pin for finishing but to me it's an accomplishment. Took me almost 5 years to do - June 29th will be my 5th caching anniversary. Looks very much, almost certain, that we'll be home tomorrow night.
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