Day 18 - Friday, October 1 - Sault Ste Marie to De Tour Village, MI

 Another beautiful day here. I honestly don't know how God could have made it any nicer. We lazed around at Soo Locks Campground this morning. We finally left around noon. It is only 57 miles to Paradise Point Campground in De Tour Village and early check-in time was 1 PM. With the exception of a couple of miles of city streets inside Sault Ste Marie the roads we traveled, both state and county roads, were in great shape. The route my crazy Garmin RV GPS tried to get us to follow would have added over 10 miles to the trip, to keep us a state highway longer. We ignored it and followed the paper map in our Atlas, which was the route shown using Google maps. The Garmin GPS kept trying to reroute us. Twice it wanted us to drive down a gravel road. Someone at Garmin needs to do a LOT of work on their algorithms. 

Welcome to Paradise Point (the gate was just starting to open to let someone out of the campground).

Ma & Pa Dirschell all set up and having a late lunch.

Two 5th wheel units pulled in minutes after we backed into our space. The guy next to us mentioned that this area must be Duramax row. All 3 trucks in the photo are Duramax's. Mine is a 2005, its the newest of the 3. The guy next to us has a 2003 that he bought new and his son-in-law has a 2004. They are from the Grand Rapids, MI area. I didn't think to ask how many miles they had on their trucks. The guy with the 2003 said that he leaves his in the garage most of the winter, to keep it out of the road salt. He said he drives "Old Rusty", another truck he has, during the winter months.

We didn't make it in time for any morning sun but Kathy was:

Sittin' in the morning sun, She'll be sittin' when the evening comes watching the ships roll in, then watch'em roll away again, yeah, she was sittin' on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away..." No tides here and now ships in this bay. For those of you to young to remember the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug 

The land way out is Canada. We have seen a couple of freighters on their way from Lake Superior to Lake Huron.

There are only 14 sites here, but they are nice. Sites are on the right. On the left is a channel with docks for boats.

I got a shock as we were driving down here today. I saw a blue yard sign and thought I was going to see the first Biden sign in the over 1,400 miles we have driven. I was wrong, it was a Blue Lives Matter sign. We did see more Trump and Trump/Pence signs again today, in addition to American flags flown by folks who still thing the is a great nation.

God is good, may He bless you and yours.