So, we sat down last night and came up with what we THOUGHT was a good plan. Start on the Eastern side of the state and travel over the top to the Western side....seeing all points of interest in between (and there ARE a lot of things to see! I just don't remember Michigan being so interesting when I was a kid!).We created a drive plan and a meal plan to boot, feeling pretty good about it until we looked at the cost of the gas. YIKES! The average price we've seen here so far is well above good ole' South Carolina's prices. Anyway, since we're both educators at heart we are good at "monitoring and adjusting"....so....we kicked back to what we had discussed some time ago to be our travel plan if we ever got to full-time: pick a "home base" in the central portion of a state and make day trips to all points around that we wanted to visit. Then we got really excited thinking about how much fun it would be to be able to set up camp for a "while" and not have to set up/break down to move every day or so, and still be able to see Michigan and all it has to offer. And that's what are mind set was when we started out this morning. After a quick visit to Mickey D's to pick up breakfast for ourselves and the Foote family, we ate with all of them and Mom (minus Nina who had a sleepover with a friend and had to drive her home early) on the deck. Beautiful way to start the morning. Said our goodbyes and headed for Harrison, Michigan. We saw a Saginaw Valley State University sign along the interstate and of course, we had to make a pit stop to see where our nephew would be spending the next few years. What a beautiful campus! (Sure hope it will be able to handle our boy!) We had originally planned to frequent state parks but after some internet research, Steve found a funny thing here: Michigan State Parks don't offer water hook-ups to campers. Really Michigan? What's THAT all about? Sewer maybe, but WATER? Steve found what looked to a sweet campground for us to head to and it turned out to be everything it offered on the internet. Nice to see that SOME places are true to form. Hidden Hill Family Campgroung is a beautiful shady little place on one of the only "hills" we've seen after driving for a few hours! We've also noticed some other things we don't see in SC...WHITE birch trees..not just scattered here and there but little forests of them. They are one of my favorite trees and something I've wanted to plan in our yard in SC and can never find them there. Pretty, pretty and I plan to try to get some photos of them tomorrow on our drive. Also, Steve noticed that in SC we have mainly pine tree forests with a smattering of hardwoods and here, it's the opposite: hardwood forests with a smattering of pines. AND the pins have needles pointing UP? Huh? Probably a different variety of pines. We've also seen lots of blue spruce trees (REALLY blue when nestled amongst GREEN trees) and Steve saw a couple of deer he swears are different colors than their SC cousins. (That made me google "deer in Michigan" and sure enough....a different color fur! Thanks, iPad!). What fun! We set up camp and decided to find a grocery store since we hadn't brought much for meals. Found a good one and after going waaaaayyyy over budget we came back and unloaded, put away and I made dinner. Yummy taco salad--always a tasty, quick and painless meal. Tucked in around 11 or so and we're excited to get our real adventure started in the morning!
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