Day 8, Lake Superior Circle Tour

We set off about 10:30 this morning. Another gorgeous day. Carolyn is taking a day off from driving and making decisions and is just sitting in the back seat enjoying the view, working on her journal, and generally relaxing. She has done the majority of the driving, so it's a well deserved rest. Heidi is our driver of the day. I get to ride shotgun and help Wanda navigate.

Finally found the new Holiday Inn outside of Munising—it's right on the bay and looks nice. Will store that info away for next trip if there is another trip.

The highway is following the bay—it's very scenic.

We passed through Christmas, Michigan. Bring your cards and letters here to be mailed.

The colors continue to be gorgeous. Our captain on the boat last night said the colors right on the the lake are just starting, but a few feet inland they're going gangbusters.

On to Marquette, right on the lake. Back in big city land, there's a Target, Wal-mart, Lowes, Menards, etc. and a 4-lane highway.

Outside of Marquette we came upon Da Yoopers Tourist Trap. I like a place that's up front about what it is. Well we had a blast in there. All kinds of pithy sayings. There was a perfect t-shirt for my brother-in-law, but they didn't have it in his size. “Eat venison. 10,000 wolves can't be wrong.” Or how about this: “I can't remember if I'm the evil sister or the good sister.” Or “Save a cow; eat a vegetarian.” Got to see Carolyn engage in some marathon shopping. As my sister says, I love to watch Carolyn spend money!

We were looking for a place to have pasties for lunch, but weren't having much luck. Stopped at a place called the Hillside Restaurant in L'Anse, but they didn't have them. Decided to go on to Baraga, only a few miles on the other side of the bay. No restaurants there at all. Decided to go back to L'Anse and eat at the Hilltop. Well, those sorts of manoeuvres drive Wanda the GPS lady batso, she keeps wanting us to turn around. Finally she loses patience and tells us to make a legal U-turn! Anyway, had a good lunch and then proceeded to Silver City where we are spending the night on the shores of the lake again.

There's a lovely beach area here with benches and firepits. Quite a crowd gathered to watch and photograph the sunset. Then came in for dinner—fortunately after most of the tour bus crowd had eaten. The tour bus pulled in shortly after us and the place was suddenly over run with old geezers. We asked the hostess when we paid for dinner what time they would be leaving—she said 8:00 a.m. We will plan to have breakfast after they leave!