Days 38 & 39 - Thursday & Friday, August 1 & 2 - Slow Days

Thursday - We had planned on going to Brown Fisheries Fish House in Paradise, MI. Eating whitefish at Brown's and then driving out to Whitefish Point and walking along the shore of Lake Superior is a highlight of our trips to the UP. I checked on the web to find out Brown's hours and to my surprise the restaurant is closed, and has been for about 2 years. It must have closed shortly after we last ate there.

https://bertdsblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/saturday-july-23rd-whitefish-point.html 

Their Facebook page says they were hoping to reopen in July. Lord willing, we will be coming back through Sault Ste Marie during the 3rd week of August. Hopefully they will be open by then and we can get some of their excellent fish.

Friday - We didn't do anything in the morning. Well, I tried, unsuccessfully, to figure out why the drivers side captain's chair back is not reclining properly. Kathy did several loads of laundry. For lunch we drove a couple of miles down to the Cozy Inn and had their whitefish. It was good but not as good as Browns. After lunch we drove another mile to the local ice cream and pizza place, for ice cream cones. They have good hand dipped ice cream, and great pizza. Then it was on into Sault Ste Marie to take another stab at finding a new light bulb for our refrigerator. I tried a big Ace hardware, an electrical supply house (named Everything Electrical) and a NAPA store. Still no success.

Then it was back home where I  flushed the black tank and Kathy did another load of laundry. She took a short nap while I got in a 2 hour one. After supper I walked the trash up to the trash barrels and noted several of the units in the campground.

The color of our coach is far to dark to suit us. The black really makes it hot so that it is necessary to run the AC more than we did with our Dutch Star coach, which was more of a light brown. The AC units must work overtime with the coach shown below. In "real life" it looks darker than it does in the photo.

This is the kind of rig that my cousin Jeff originally planned on getting, and living in full time, we he is released from prison, a Lance truck camper and truck enough to pull a big bass boat. I stopped and visited with this couple for quite some time. They are well in their 80's. They had recently moved over to Bay Mills from a campground on the river in Sault Ste. Marie. We both like to watch the freighters do up and down the river. They don't live full time in the truck camper, they have a home. They do travel a lot. Their 350 Powerstroke Ford truck has 280,000 miles on it. They also have a Chevy Duramax with over 200,000 miles on it.

This guy has spent a LOT of hours doing this school bus conversion. As I was walking by he was standing out by the hose connection. Water was spraying everywhere. I asked him if he wanted to borrow a hose for the night but he said he had another one. He mentioned that it might just need a new washer in the hose end. I have a box with several different styles so I took him a couple different ones to try. I didn't stay to visit because he was in the middle of taking supper off a grill. 

Tomorrow we plan on crossing into Canada to check out the Saturday Farmer's Market and go to the Bush Plane Museum. It will be our first visit to Sault Ste Marie Ontario Canada.

The weather was warm and humid yesterday. Today was warm but the humidity seemed lower. Both days the high was reported to be 84 degrees. As it cooled off the humidity shot back up this evening. At 10:30PM the temperature is 66 and the humidity is 100%. Tomorrows high is supposed to be a sunny 78 degrees.

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