Hi all,
We are at it again. Nancy and I and our trusty companion Max (our dog) will be out enjoying the Great Lakes once again. We will be leaving, weather permitting, on Monday June 14. You will notice that we are using our old 'Bringing Feath Home' blog. It was easier to add to that than to start a new one. So you will see some of the old pictures from 2016 when we brought the boat back to Michigan.
We will be joined at the beginning of the trip, at least for a couple of days, with my sister, Barb and her daughter-in-law Mary Ann. We will also be joined with our daughter Erin and her youngest son, Michael and their little dog 'Early'. They will be travelling with us for about a week.
We will be travelling up the coast of Michigan, up into the Straits of Mackinaw, up through the St. Mary's River, through the Soo Locks and into Lake Superior. We will work our way over stopping at Munising, Marquette, Houghton/Hancock and other places as deemed necessary by distance and weather. We will pick up my two sisters for a few days around the Apostle Islands in Wisconsin, then they will spend a couple of days in Duluth with us as we visit our daughter Laurel and grandkids Ben and Ruby. We will probably spend about two weeks in Duluth/Superior WI, as we have friends in the area, then begin our way back out of Lake Superior. At that point, we have no idea where we will go. If the North Channel of Ontario is open we may head up there. If not we will meander around Northern Lake Michigan and possibly into Green Bay/Wisconsin waters. We are planning on our returning by the middle of September if all works out as planned.
Of course, no preparation is complete without some setbacks. On Friday, June 4, we turned on the A/C in the boat. On Sunday, June 6 we went to check. Of course the A/C was not working as it should. We searched far and wide looking for someone to come out to the boat and get our A/C running as it should. We finally found someone yesterday, June 8 to come out after hours (of course paying Emergency rates) to the boat. Sooooo, hopefully by the end of this week, we will have working A/C.
We will continue to update this blog along the way with pics as well. We hope you enjoy hearing from us and our trials and tribulations.
Thanks for reading.
Lenny & Nancy