August 3, 2012

We were awakened by thundering this morning at 4:00 am.  Jim and I had to get the clothes that were hanging on the line outside before they got wet.  It didn’t rain and when we got up we rehung them outside.  I fixed steak and egg wraps for breakfast and we sat outside in our chairs.  While drinking our coffee sitting in our chairs a lady came up and asked us if we were leaving.  We told her no and that we would be here for another couple of days.  She thought we were leaving because we didn’t have anything outside like tarps, tents, cooking gear, pop up shades, bicycles, etc.  All the other campers have so much stuff outside that it looks like a permanent refugee camp.

Around noon we went to the beach and got into the water.  We took our books to read and stayed until about 3 pm.  We went back to the Casita and sat outside for a while.  Then we went into Ludington to Jamesport Brewing.  We had a beer and I talked to a man with a Ginger Man – Austin tee shirt on.  He was the brewer.  He told us to come by tomorrow and he would give us a tour of the brewery.

Ludington was having a Friday Night Live and had a few of the blocks cordoned off.  They had similar booths that Traverse City had the Friday night we went downtown to theirs.  We walked around and listened to some of the music and had a slice of pizza.  Then Jim drove around until we found the light station and took a picture.  This town has a Wal Mart and we went to buy a couple of items.  We bought two tubes to use in the water.  I cooked spaghetti and then went to see the sunset.