Thursday, April 29, 2010

Another travel day - to Emmett, MIichigan

        This was a travel day for us.  Of course, now that we were leaving Baraboo, the weather got nice again and we sped through the Wisconsin and Illinois countryside in sun and temperatures in the high 60's.  Our Garmin GPS decided we should be routed through downtown Chicago, and we were fortunate in not running into any of the traffic problems that one usually encounters between O'Hare airport and downtown.
        The brief travel through Indiana was not pleasant.  The highway construction around Gary is terrible to negotiate, clearly the worst construction job we had been through since I95 in Georgia two months ago.  Northern Indiana is heavily industrialized, and driving by the steel mills and the other heavy industry doesn't make for great photographic vistas!
        Scenery improved as we got into Michigan, and we enjoyed seeing the pretty faux-Dutch city of Holland.  There are tulips all over the place, and we were actually there at the right time to enjoy them in bloom.  There are faux windmills, dutch houses, and even a store that makes and sells wooden shoes!  Nice place to drive through, and probably to visit if we had had more time.
        We arrived at our campground on a beautiful evening.  The site itself was beautiful, but the place is transitioning to a full "KOA" facility and it has a long, long way to go.  For example, though they advertise propane, Kabins, K-9 park, and cable TV, the former three aren't available and the TV isn't at all sites--including the one we were at.  On the other hand, it's a huge, lovely facility, and again we were among the few RV's there.  The dogs loved it, and we took advantage of the time to clean the RV, do some laundry, and catch up on our computer work.

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