Day 11 - Saturday, September 25 - Travelling Ishpeming to Brimley, MI

 Last night it rained part of the night, but it stopped before we needed to start hooking up. When we drove to Munising earlier this week we took county road 480 to bypass going into Marquette on US41. We did the same today but went south on US41 to MI94 and took it across to the east side of Munising. The entire length of US41 thru Munising is a construction site. They are totally removing the old road and building a new one. Traffic is one lane each way. It wasn't bad the day we were there, but I wasn't looking forward to pulling the camper thru the narrow lanes.

My Garmin RV GPS would have routed us through all the construction. Kathy did a check on her map app and found the MI94 option. It was good, two lane highway the entire way. My Garmin kept telling us to make a U-turn until we were maybe 15 miles down the alternate route.

Today's drive was 170 miles. No rain while driving or setting up here. We  stopped at a rest area (MI has rest areas and scenic turnouts all over the place) and had lunch in the camper. 

We are staying at the Bay Mills Resort & Casino Campground. The casino complex and campground are located on the Bay Mills Indian Community reservation. The reservation consists of 2,400 acres on the "mainland" and Sugar Island (640 acres) in the St. Mary's river. The Tribe owns another 430 acres but  I don't know it that is technically part of the reservation.

The campground is across the road from the casino complex. In the photo below the You Are Here icon is at the west edge of the casino complex.

Kathy is standing near the You Are Here sign. The water in the bay is quite calm but the sky sure looks stormy.

Below is a photo of the casino complex taken from the campground. There are quite a few vehicles in the parking lot.

As we walked back over to the campground this is looking toward the west. The building at the left edge of the photo is the rest room, shower, laundry complex.

Below is Kathy on her way back to our camper, on the east end of the campground. It is a big place and while not full there are a lot of campers here.

I had read that the campground office was often unattended and that you had to go over to the casino to check in. When we arrived there was a sign on the office door saying pick out an empty site, but don't park there, go over to the hotel check in and check in, then go back and get set up. It had rained here and a lot of the grassy areas between the site contained ponded water. I walked around and found one that didn't, walked across the road, got signed up, came back across the road, drove to the site I had picked out and we set up. Shortly after we got set up it rained for maybe 5 minutes. It has rained several times since then.

The rate for the hotel rooms is $99/night for a regular queen room and $109 for a king with a jacuzzi. Campground rates are $29/night for a full hook up, wifi, and cable. ($20/night for just electricity) No sales tax on the reservation. Our total bill was $87 for 3 nights.

You have to wear a mask to enter the casino complex. It is noted on their website on posted on the doors. When the girl at the registration desk told the guy next to me, who had a room reservation, that he had to wear a mask while in side the complex he said, "I'm not wearing a mask. Cancel my reservation. I don't do business with Nazi's." He left. It was somewhat humorous. 

Saw another Trump sign today, still no Biden signs.

My supper is ready. I better get this sent, shut down the PC and get to eating; or I will be in trouble with the cook.

God is good, may He bless you and yours.