The day dawns in the woods

We are here in Interlocken after a longish two day trip from Omaha. Flooding forced us to travel south to Missouri and to cross the Mississippi River at Hannibal. We stopped the first night in Illinois. We saw extensive flooding all along the way. We feel for the farmers that had their corn or other crops under water as it killed the crop. You could see large fields of mud but nothing growing. This is a huge loss in the mid-west. There was flooding of homes too. As one person put it, "Katrina was George Bush's fault and this must be too." Somehow, no matter how important a president might be, it seems a long stretch to make an act of God or mother nature, his fault.

Gas and diesel prices are awful and we hated to stop to fill up the motor home, knowing that it would be so expensive. This is likely to put a serious damper on future travel for us. We did not see many motor homes on our way up to Michigan.

We arrived about five o'clock yesterday, unloaded the car and trailer and got parked. At that point we were quite tired so treated ourselves to a dinner out which turned out to be very good. We are parked in a Michigan State Park which is located directly across the road from the Interlocken Music Camp. You do literally hear music drifting through these woods. We have electric hookup but no water or sewer. Fortunately HW2 reserved us a location very close to the bathrooms. We stayed here about four years ago and know the routine of camping here.

Kim and boys should arrive in the afternoon today. They have a cabin on the grounds of the music camp and it is within walking distance of this state park. This morning we will get haircuts done, car washed and some grocery buying so that we will be ready when they get here. It is lovely to see them. Their dad will drive up for the weekend after work. Yeah!!!!!

So, we are parked in the woods about 100 feet from a small lake and can bike or walk. If there is any drawback, it is the ever present misquitoes (Locals call them the Michigan Airforce). We must use repellant every time we leave to go outside. This seems a small price to pay to camp in such lovely surroundings. It is good to be able to be back on line and maybe blog on a regular basis.