After surviving our first night of camping and the inevitable rain showers, we took a ferry over to Mackinac Island and spent the day wandering the island. It stinks! Really, the island (especially downtown) reeks of horse pee. There are no motorized vehicles allowed on the island, so all transportation is horse drawn or by bike. Sounds romantic until you smell it. I can't imagine what it might be like in the summertime with the summer sun warming up that aroma. We took a wonderful 6 mile walk around the island, got caught in a thunder and lightening storm, and enjoyed a great lunch at one of the Grand Hotel's restaurants. The Grand Hotel, circa 1887, http://www.grandhotel.com/ is one of the US' great hotels with the "world's longest porch" and the stately white facade. The movies "This Time for Keeps," and "Somewhere in Time" were both filmed at the hotel.
We took the ferry back to Mackinac City and returned to our camp site. We consider ourselves pampered at this campground, with hot showers and wireless internet. Life couldn't get any better! There must be thousands of Canadian Geese here though and they never seem to sleep. They were honking lullabies to us all night long . . . lucky us!
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