Friday, 28 July – to Michigan, Pontiac Lake

The wind came up during the night and morning arrived with dull grey skies.  Time to move on!  We will miss this park and have put it on the list of places we would like to come back to one day!  As we pulled out we were further impressed by the supplied hoses at the dump station and they also offer air!  For now though we are off to Michigan.

We pass through Toledo but as it is only 10 am we don’t stop at The Bar across from the Depot and chat to Lucille, anyway she is probably still tending the four hungry children and the crops in the field.  We cross over the state line from Ohio into Pure Michigan and stop at the Welcome Centre to pick up some literature.  The team here is very friendly, they even take our photos with Elvis.

Welcome to Michigan

Elvis and us

We then skirt around the left (west) of Detroit.  Apart from a stream of traffic coming towards us on the I75 it wasn’t too busy and a pretty good drive, although the road wasn’t the best condition.

Detroit City - Johnny Cash's dulcet tones in my head = don't wanna go home just yet though!

For our accommodation tonight we decide on the Pontiac Lake - State Recreation Area, chosen because it’s Pontiac (# Bryan - good enough reason).  We are still within the outer city limits of Detroit City. We experience a touch of concern proceeding along the road to the camp, a road sign indicates ‘no seal ahead’ – yikes!!  And we are not yet at the road the camp is even on.

Unpaved road!!  Not going to be able to U Turn there if we need to.

Then a slight problem as we get to our allocated site, the power box is situated way way over to the side of the site, nowhere near the paved area where we should park and much further than our power cord can reach.  Hmm, we decide to front in, that way we can see over the valley in front of us and if we park on the grass (permission granted) and way forward of the pavement we can just stretch the power cable to get the 30 amp on offer.  We are only here for one night as we have booked a couple of nights at a casino (with live music) for Saturday and Sunday nights next.

Power post way over on the left, parking pad on right

We have good cell coverage here so spend an hour or so checking emails, posting blogs, checking facebook, bank accounts etc.  The US$/NZ$ Exchange rate is up even more now - $0.7396!

The sun comes out full strength during the afternoon and we take our recliners to the view side of the coach and lax back with our books for an hour or two.  Luckily there is a nice breeze which just provides enough of a cooling factor.

We are treated to a beautiful sunset again, followed by a pitch black night!  The breeze has subsided and it’s cooling down, might need the blankie tonight!