Flip Flop Dilemma...

If you're RVing I'm sure that one dilemma you face each day ( as do we) is which pair of flip flops is appropriate for the activity you partake in.

When going out to a restaurant or shopping, would it be OK to wear our casual flops - or do we go all out and wear our dress flip flops?

And what about tennis shoes? Yes, it's true we DO have dress tennis shoes, but we find that the only time we wear those is when we know we're going to do a lot of walking!

Just ONE of the many dilemmas we face DAILY as we travel around the country. Sigh...

Lake Michigan and South Haven MI

This is our first post from our two week stay near Lake Michigan. We are 5 miles from the lake, which is beautiful. Great RV park; it's brand new and not crowded at all. That will change this coming week, with Labor Day weekend coming up. Steve had spent hours finding us a place for Labor Day (note to selves for next year, make holiday reservations early!!!). Anyway, he did a great job cause this place is very nice. We have the largest site, right across from a huge meadow. Elvis has his own backyard again!! Well, temporarily anyway.

We are going to explore part of the lake this week, so we'll do lake pics all at the end of the trip. We are going to "Taste of Sagatauk today; it's about 15 miles up the lake. If you did the entire trip around the lake, it's 1100 miles!!! We aren't going that far, obviously.

The slideshow above is from the past week. We stayed in Monroe, MI, where Custer was born. It was a pretty cool little town. Steve found a route called Old Chicago Road, leading from Detroit to Gary, IN. The really cool part about it is that it was a trail that had been traveled over 10,000 years ago (really!) by great mastodons and the indigenous people who hunted them. I don't think it was paved back then.................

We picked it up at Monroe and took it about half way. The best part was that park with all the cement bridges. NO ONE was there, so we had the run of the park (for Elvis again) and we tried to get pics of all 17 bridges. Not sure I found them all. Anyway, pretty interesting stuff you can find on the road; we get ideas from the Motor home magazines. We don't really do lots of research. Too much like a job.

Yesterday on the way home I spotted the small herd of buffalo in a farmer's field. Steve wants to cook some bison burgers, so I may buy some bison meat and try one. Yuck!

OK, I gotta run. Steve is such a task master!!! So, we are going to enjoy Lake Michigan, then head down to Indiana to get something fixed on the RV, then down to Graceland (Yeah!!!!) and hopefully over to Hot Springs, Arkansas for some hot springs therapy, then head home. See you in October!!!!

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

We went into Cleveland, OH on Saturday to visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It was cool! Cleveland has a very pretty and clean downtown area.

After our visit in Cleveland, we stayed at a campground in Monroe, MI ( http://www.harbortownrv.com/ ) for 5 days. Did you know that Monroe was General Custers home town? Weeee! Monroe is a little town about 30 miles south of Detroit and I feel kind of sorry for people who live here. It's depressing. Half of the downtown stores are boarded up, and the closer you get to Detroit, the more things to see shut town. I imagine that when the auto manufactures were all here in the "good old days" that this area was a busy place... but not any more. And the wind! the wind blows EVERYDAY off Lake Erie. Makes my golf game hard to play! HA! On the bright side I shot a 88 yesterday, which is one of the best scores I've had in a long time :)

Oh well, we're off to Jones, MI today to spend another 5 days hanging out in MI here: http://www.camelotcampgroundllc.com/ . After Labor Day, we're heading south towards Jacksonville!

Letchworth State park, NY

It's really amazing what you can find in this country. Just 70 miles southeast of Niagara Falls there's a state park called Letchworth. It has been appropriately nicknamed the "Little Grand Canyon" of the northeast.

If you ever have the chance - visit this place. It's beautiful :)
http://www.letchworthpark.com/ 

Rain, rain, rain = Double Rainbow

Boy! Has it been WET!
It rained on us in ME and NH. And it followed us to Herkimer now it's been POURING on us here in Byron, NY. Sigh.

Have you ever seen a DOUBLE rainbow? For the 1st time in our lives, we have! Can you see the 2nd rainbow in the pictures below?

We're ready for our trip to AZ! Not too much rain there I hear :)

We have found a great RV Park to stay in though. Nice open spaces and there's no one next to us. We kinda like that.
There's not much to do in this area, but we will try and take a trip to what's called the "Little Grand Canyon" of the North located in Letchworth Park, NY.

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Free Information calls from Google

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Gloucester & Salem, MA

Well here we are back in Mass. This time in Salisbury, about a mile from the beach. Really small RV park, and everyone is packed in pretty tight, but we wanted to be within close range of Exeter, Salem and Gloucester. May take a day train to Boston, but mostly just short day trips if we have to leave poor little Elvis in the RV. He's so pitiful. We "doggy-cammed" him with our video recorder a while ago, and as soon as we leave, he gets down on the step and waits for us. Must be uncomfortable for him. He DOES have the option of sleeping on one of two sofas, his bed, or the recliners, but he just waits by the door..................

Oh well, on to our day trip. It was really gloomy so we didn't want to do the beach and we decided to head south to Gloucester. I always thought it was just a sleepy little fishing town, but oh my God, it is absolutely stunning! The homes surrounding the harbor are incredible. Anyway, we drove the entire bay and then hiked up the trail to take the lighthouse pics.

Then, 22 miles further south to Salem. I felt sooooooooo at home there, I just don't know why. LOL! Steve understands why.

It is another great old town. We didn't know the House of the Seven Gables was there, so we took the pics and did a "self guided" walking tour of Salem. In other words, a freebie. These tourist places are really pricey.

So, just a few more days in New England and we are off to Lake Erie, then over to Cleveland to see the RV Hall of Fame (yes, there is one), then the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

We have really really loved the New England country. I keep saying I could really live here, as soon as someone does something about the awful winter weather. I won't hold my breath. But I would live in Gloucester, on the harbor. Just waiting for that Mega Millions ticket to pay off.

Please look at the slideshow below. Think we got some good snaps. We are already beginning to plan our trip back home, in early to mid October. We won't be coming back the coast however, kind of zigzag down from South Dakota. Hope to see Jim's mom in Kentucky. We just want to see some leaves turn and then come back to Jax and take care of a bunch of stuff during the winter there.

Hope everyone is well and you are not too hot in Jax! Yeah, right. My mom and sister says it's been raining almost every day. Good thing we got that townhouse watertight this past winter.

All for now, take care!!!

Kathy, Steve, and Elvis (the King)