Monday, August 22nd - Happy Birthday Kathy

 Today was moving day. We moved from the Tiki RV Park in St. Ignace to the Timber Ridge Resort in Traverse City, 125 miles. We are now back in MI's lower peninsula. Weather was good, traffic was moderate and roads were in decent condition. Kathy even let me drive today, its the most I have driven the coach in a single day. I even got to drive across the Mighty Mac.

This place is big, 250 sites, but calling it a resort is a stretch. It has a pool, a nice playground and full hook ups. Calling a place with coin operated showers a resort is a huge stretch, but I guess if you are going to charge $65/night for a gravel site with a small concrete pad for a picnic table you need to call it a resort.

The site spacing is acceptable, and there are a lot of trees. Many sites look to me like they require some levelling blocks, ours did. There are lots of empty sites so I have no idea why they put us in a site that should have been limited to no more than a 36' coach. It was a booger getting into it and even though it is called a pull thru site the back of our coach would drag the ground if we went down the "ramp" leaving the site. It will be a booger backing out of it.

Getting into the site required missing the tree on the left, not hitting the tree on the right as the rear of the coach swung during the turn and not driving over the fire pit. A guy from the campground bent the green roadside sign over against the ground so that the tail of the coach could travel over it.

The ramp leaving the site is much steeper than it looks.

They do have some nice places for kids to play.

Some strange things were in the air as I walked around the campground. Look for the strange thing near the top center of the photo below.

Did you find it?

Some of you know that my sister-in-law, also a Kathy, has been dealing with a kidney stone for well over a month, thank you for praying for her. It took forever for her to get in for surgery. Yesterday they finally removed the stones (as it turned out she had more than one). Everything seemed to go okay.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours.