Wednesday, August 24th - Took a Drive

Temperatures got to warm today. I'm kind of wishing we had stayed in the UP for another week. Today's high was 85, the AC is humming.

I forgot to mention that last week we started noticing that the leaves on one type of tree were starting to change colors. We were in Sault Ste Marie on October 1st last year and were disappointed that we saw very little color change. The change in these trees may just be a tease.

Today we took a 120 mile drive around a peninsula that forms one side of Grand Traverse Bay. 

Our first stop was at the Wednesday morning Farmers Market in downtown Traverse City. Kathy bought a couple of tomatoes and some peaches. Then it was on up the coast to Northport.

We have seen many beautiful flowers during our travels this fall. The photo below is a pitiful attempt at showing the flowers in the front year of a house we drove by today.

The shore area of this bay off Lake Michigan must be very shallow. It appears that you would have to wade out to get to your boat, or maybe take a small boat or canoe.

About 1:30 we stopped at the Shipwreck Café in Empire for lunch. I had an Italian sub and Kathy had some type of wrap. Both were good. The place had some seats inside and maybe 7 old wooden picnic tables outside. It is so busy that they give you buzzers and buzz you when your order is ready. We sat outside, no shade and the sun was BRIGHT. It felt like it would be easy to get a sunburn, no matter how tanned you were.

On our way back home we made a couple of stops. Yesterday Costco had a basic model Samsung tablet marked down from $299 to $199, I bought one. My old Asus tablet occasionally acts a little wonky. When I tried to use the Samsung app to transfer the information from old to new the app wouldn't work because my Asus tablet was to old. I checked and confirmed that it had the latest available versions of software and firmware on it, dated 2016. The app was trying to use a WiFi direct method to transfer the information. There is also on option to connect the two devices with a cable to make the transfer. Of course I didn't have the correct cable with me so today we stopped at a Walmart and I bought a cable, the wrong one.

The other stop was to buy more sweet corn. We bought 2 dozen ears. Kathy cut the corn off the cob and froze it. Our freezer is full. We may stop by the place again tomorrow and buy another dozen to take with us when we leave here Friday AM. We can eat it during the next week.

There was some good scenery today but based on our past and present experiences along Lake Michigan our opinion is that the coastal area is to high brow for old, rednecks like us. MI's UP suits us much better. 

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