Lakeport, Michigan

Tuesday, August 30th.  We're over on the Lake Huron shoreline on the east coast of Michigan.  Lakeport is about 15 miles north of  Port Huron.  There's a crossing into Canada at Port Huron...the Bluewater bridge.  We decided to go to the US Customs office at the crossing in anticipation of going into Canada next week.  Our visit started out kind of disastrously when I drove past a barricade that was supposed to be closed.  We were immediately approached by gun-wearing customs officers asking what we were doing.  After I explained our purpose, the tension level seemed to go down.  We discovered that we could not bring a lot of things we had on board back into the US.  Those included meat, veggies, wine (2 cases) and opened dog food.  That has caused us to rethink our itinerary.  We called our friends, Dave and Mary Cochrane, who we were going to visit in Paris, Ontario.  They graciously understood our plight and will meet us in Sodus Point, NY in about 10 days.  It was easier to make this itinerary change knowing we will still get to see them on our trip.

A coney island out of the back of the car.

From Port Huron, we went north along the coast to do some sightseeing.  We went to the town of Lexington, which is trying to be like some of the towns we visited along the Lake Michigan shore.  They did have and A & W Root Beer restaurant and they proudly announced that Tuesday was 99 cent Coney Island day.  Now Maine has its lobster, but Detroit has Coney Islands.  I haven't had a good one since the last time I was in Detroit.  These were not great, but they warmed up my palate in anticipation of the real thing in just a couple of days.

P.B. guard duty

We also stopped at a Kroger's grocery store.  That's the same chain that owns QFC and others across the country.  We saw an unusual site in the parking lot.  It appears someone bought a jar of peanut butter and it fell out of their bag and under the wheel of the car.  The jar was crushed and a seagull was standing guard over the spilled peanut butter.  It was like he wasn't sure he liked it, but nobody else was getting it either.  He chased several other seagulls away.  It was quite comical.

A freighter on the lake

Lake Huron was very calm and it was fun to see lake freighters going by.  But the beach was quite stoney and not nearly as picturesque as Lake Michigan.  I guess you can tell by today's and previous days' comments that we fell in love with the Lake Michigan coastline.