July 12, 2012

We arrived in Michigan at 9:50 am.  This is my 50^th state to visit.  We drove to the UP (Upper Peninsula) and got a site in Hancock at the city park.  We will be here for three nights so we can get a site before all the weekenders show up and take up all the spaces. We walked over to the city beach next to the campground.  We may go swimming here tomorrow or Saturday.  We went to the Isle Royale National Park visitor center and watched a movie about the island.  It has no roads and only primitive campsites.  The National Park operates a boat ride to the isle for $120.00 per round trip.  The next boat is tomorrow and won’t return until Saturday.  We would have to camp overnight on the island and we don’t have any camping gear so we aren't going to go there.  Most of the people who go to Isle Royale are rugged outdoor types --backpackers or kayakers.  We are a little too old for that.

We went to two brewpubs in Houghton and had a beer at each.   One was The Librew'ry and one was Keweenaw Brewing.  Jim tried to get his hair cut at 4 pm but the barbershop was closed.  We are now  in the Eastern time zone and didn’t set our watches -- it was really 5 pm.  We went back to camp and I fixed supper and we rented a redbox movie, “ The Artist".