Before taking a shower last (Thursday) night I turned on one of our heat pumps. I set the thermostat at 65 to warm things up and then turned it down to 60 for the night. The overnight low was 37 degrees. Yesterday's (Friday) high was in the mid 70's.
You get to see all types of rigs during walks around the campground. This pickup camper looked a little unstable on its stilts. Not sure I'd be comfortable sleeping in it on a windy night, or even climbing up to get the boat off the roof.
I was sitting in our coach when this unit rolled by on its way to find its site. It has to be close to 50' long.
We left the campground slightly after 11 and started the 180 mile drive to Sault Ste Marie. This was the first day that we experienced significant traffic problems. During the westbound trip from Sault Ste Marie to Ishpeming we drove through a couple of construction areas near Munising but didn't experience significant delays. The eastbound trip was quite different.
In Christmas, MI they are replacing M28, the main street, the entire length of the the town. It also appears that they are doing major utility work in combination with the pavement replacement. Traffic delays there were minimal, during both our westbound and eastbound travels, with traffic flow being reduced to one lane each way.
When we hit Munising construction on the east side of town had everything bottled up. We noticed traffic backed up when we pulled up and stopped at this traffic light. We sat at the light for 50 minutes, I timed it.
In hind site there isn't much that they contractor could have done, other than switch back and forth between eastbound and westbound traffic at smaller time intervals. The backup of westbound traffic did not appear to be nearly as long as the eastbound backup. If you are travelling into or out of Munising from the east M28 is your only option. I couldn't see any way to bypass the construction work.
After we cleared all the construction we stopped at a roadside pull off and had lunch. Even with the construction delays we were set up at Soo Locks Campground by 4:30. We weren't able to get a site directly on the river, but we have a decent view of it.
We haven't seen the people in the truck camper on our west side but the camper is the one I took photos I took July 21st. We did meet Gene & Rose, our neighbors on the east. They are a retired couple from near Charlotte, NC. We met them as they were returning from a bicycle ride to the Locks Visitors Center, about 1.5 miles from the campground. They lived in the Indianapolis area for awhile but spent a lot of their pre-retirement years living in Virginia and working in the DC area.
The campground appears to be nearly full. It I think we were quite fortunate (thank you Jesus) to get a site for a week.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours.
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