August 8-13 Out of Ohio and into Michigan

Travel these past few days has been pretty nice since getting out of Lake Erie, which we discovered is called the arm pit of the Great Lakes. I totally agree.

**Cedar Point in Sandusky Ohio along the shores of Lake Erie**. **Opened in 1870 and is the second oldest amusement park in the US**

Most of our recent overnight stays have been in marinas due to the lack of adequate anchorages in this part of Michigan. Even getting spaces in marinas is hard, especially on the weekends, due to the HUGE number of weekend boaters. I guess if you like boating and you only have 3 months in which to do it, you do it a lot. It has taken some work, but my personal travel director has done an exceptional job in finding us places to park for the night. Some are really nice and a few, well kind of?

**The Ambassador Bridge with Detroit in the background**

**Canadian Side of the Ambassador Bridge**

The Ambassador Bridge is a suspension bridge that connects the US and Canada in Detroit Michigan and Windsor Ontario Canada. It is the busiest international border crossing in North America. It opened in 1929. It took 2 1/2 years to build and is the longest suspension bridge in the world totaling 7,500 feet across the Detroit River.

**A river otter along the dock in the Sindbad Marina in Detroit. Note the yuck in the water and the condition of the docks. At least it had a restaurant and the food was good.**

Michigan is called the “mitten state”. Hold your left hand up, with the fingers pointing up, and the thumb slightly outwards. That is the shape of the lower part of Michigan, and everyone points to where they have been or are going using the “mitten method”. We have been through LaSalle, MI at the very bottom of the thumb; Detroit, MI, a little further up the thumb from LaSalle along the Detroit River, and are now in Port Huron, MI, halfway up the thumb through the St Clair River and almost into Lake Huron.

Once we got out of Lake Erie, past Detroit, into Lake St. Clair, the water settled down, is gorgeous blue and you can actually see through it in a lot of places. The St Clair River connects Lake St Clair to Lake Huron and is a major shipping channel with the US on one side and Canada on the other side.

**One of the giant ships we encountered along the St Clair River. Thankfully there was plenty of room for them and all the pleasure boaters**

**One of the bridges on the Black River we had to go through to get into Port Huron. It’s the blue thing up in the air in the background.**

**‘THIS is what’ docked along the seawall at River Street Marina in the Black River in Port Huron**

Port Huron is a very cute town that is full of restaurants, shops and lots of things to do, all within walking distance.

We leave Port Huron in the morning and head further up the thumb. We are hoping to get to the top of the middle finger by the end of August and then down the pinky side of the mitten by the end of October.

Thanks for following along with us. Keep looking in. Love to all, Gina and Mike

August 8-13 Out of Ohio and into Michigan

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