Monday, July 23, 2007 -- Silver Lake, MI
Wanting to spend more time along the shore of Lake Michigan, we moved a little over 100 miles today and ended up at a small campground only a couple miles from the beach. We're at Hideaway Campground in Silver Lake, MI for the next 4 nights. It's very quiet as there are a lot of seasonal campers that keep their campers here all summer. But during the week many, if not most, are gone... probably to home and jobs. The campground takes on a ghost-town-like character with all this hardware scattered about, but no people. We're enjoying the quiet. The problem we had with the last place was the lack of trees. This place is in a forest... trees all around. Much more to our liking.
This part of Michigan is all about the dunes... sand dunes. It seems everyone has a dune-buggy, or dune-truck, or dune-jeep or dune 4-wheeler of some kind, each with a little red flag flying from a tall mast attached to the front bumper of the vehicle. Big under-inflated tires with deep treads designed for sand are on the wheels. Often, the doors or top have been cut off for some reason... probably to make sure the sand gets in every orifice of your body as you're having fun on the dunes. Jeeps and sand! That's my first impression of the area. I'm sure there'll be a lot more to say about all this in the next few days.
We're a little remote here, so the internet connection is weak. I'll probably keep the posts short for the next few nights unless I can get the speed up a little. And I'm glad so many of you are following along by reading our journal. It's a good feeling to write something and know someone's reading it.
T
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1 comment:
Might be fun to rent a dirt bike or quad and get out there and see the dunes. I have never ridden on the sand but people say its allot of fun. Maybe a action shot of some vehicle on the dunes would be cool. We are all glad you are writing to as it allows us to stay up to date with what you two are doing. One of these days you will have to get that big whale pointed west, Ryan has been asking about you guys. I will have to get him on the photo galleries so he can see what you two are doing too.
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