This day was a Day of Dread...we rode to Grand Marais...which for the record was about an hour away by car! We set out in the rain for the day....with lunches packed & rain gear on..off we rode at 10am! After a few delays and a lot of riding we made it.....looked around....not a lot to see...ate lunch and back on for the ride home. That all sounded good till we tried to take a different route home...ummm....let's just say we didn't make it home till after 10pm!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, I was weary..and Kelly was weary...but the real accomplishment...Kristi was weary!!! That was a long, long day! 12 hours on a quad! I was on the back of Steve's quad saying very loudly..."I will have a good attitude"..."I will not be grumpy"..."I will not cry"..."I will have joy in the journey"...."I will rejoice in all my circumstances".....
'The Quad Squad' kids at Grand Marais....
On our long way home from GM....we stopped at Sable Falls....there were 174 steps down to see the falls. Couldn't they have built the viewing area at the bottom of the falls???? Makes sense to me!!!!
And what about that crooked tree growing in the middle of the picture??? Couldn't someone cut that down.....so I can get a descent picture!!
Campground pictures....
With in walking distance of our campground was Biffy's Army Surplus....we ventured over there one day...a lot of un-useful items...but we did find a few gems! Trent and Dakota bought these dress hats and some pins to go on them. Some of the boys bought steel toed rubber boots and Craig bought some other boots.....we did a little damage at Biffy's. I not sure Biffy's has seem that many people at one time in awhile!
Nic, Trent & Dakota
Tyler doing a little dish washing...
Steve doing a little egg frying...in our kitchen...lol!
On our way home....we decided, at the last minute, to stop by Pictured Rock and Miners Castle. It was a beautiful day! Another year we plan to go on the boat cruise...but not this year! So, we had to view it from the shore.....
Troy, Tyler and Steve looking over Lake Superior....
Miners Castle
Craig & Kristi....
As we were sailing home, we blew a trailer tire....lucky for us we had our spare just inside the door....and the jack in the back of the truck...we literally were back on the road in 10 minutes...can you say pit crew!
I'll leave you with one last story! About Tuesday we were on a trail when Steve stopped and said he had a bug in his ear. He jumped off and started running around the trail banging on the side of his head. He asked Daren to look in his ear and see if he could see the bug. (about this time we were all laughing at his antics) He was calling for a flash light..no one had one, so he was using the headlight on the front of Daren's quad...needless to say Daren couldn't see any bug. Just when we thought it couldn't get any better, Steve put his helmet on and banged his head on the rack on his quad to try to get the bug out....I didn't get a picture (it all happened so fast!) of that! We thought it was pretty funny although Steve didn't seem to find the humor as much as we did!
Fun times, fun memories.....until next year!
6 comments:
What beautiful pictures! A couple of them look like postcards.
excellent job with the story and the pictures joanne! you are great!
loved trent's hat! loved the views. very jealous of your adventure.
I have not heard anything about bugs this trip. Don't they live in the UP?
shocking as it is..we had minimal mosquitoes. Which I must say, was not a disappointment!
The lady at the campground said she normally sold 300 OFF repellent thingies a week...this year she had yet to sell one! Awesome!
When I as a teenager I fell in love with the captain of the pictured rock tour boat. I wrote him a letter and it was a couple years later friends went up and read the letter on the bulletin board and asked if it was me. Ugh! I hope they've taken it down by now. LOL
So Steve's bug story reminds me of the black fly's. They were bothering him more than the rest of us while we were eating dinner at the picnic table. He finally had enough of it ran and jumped in the car. All we could see was his arms and hands flying around and he was crabbing up a storm in the car we couldn't hear a word he was saying we were rolling in laughter.
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