wanderingways

  A plan came together quickly, Becky and Brad had some time off and didn't know what to do so we all meet online, tossed around a few plans and ultimately did the classic Lake Michigan circle tour.  They headed to our place on Wednesday night and then we caravaned to Manitowoc for poor lunch at Lates, a drink at the Wharf and then several cosmos on the Badger.  The lake was glass smooth and we arrived in Ludington about 8 pm local time.  Amy created a new survival strategy for the loud sound of the blast horn.  Arms out, squat low; this would become a funny gag all week. Amy and I had, Pearl, and she was literally the last car off the ferry.  We even considered the possibility that maybe she was left behind on the Manty Side.  It did give us time to watch an irate man with a new truck chastise an employee for all the coal dust coating both he inside and outside of his vehicle.  The other two were already checked in to their hotel room by a very b...

Pretty normal Saturday, the air was clear after multiple days of Canadian wild fire smoke and it wasn't showing signs of oppressive heat.  We had coffee on the patio and played the various words games before heading to the farmers market.  We scored some blueberries, Amy had a horrible brown sugar shaken espresso and we split some stuffed chicken wings.  We wander the market and ultimately the trail back towards the car, stopping off at Fox harbor's patio.  We split some fries and each had a drink as we discussed plans for the rest of the day.  It was pretty windy on the water so we nixed kayaking and instead drive to Dicks and bought Amy a set of golf clubs before heading to the TR par 3 course.  She worked out the kinks on the range and broke in her new new gear on the links.  Easily making par on the first hole.  It is a nice course and had the right amount of challenge for us. A few sausages on the grill to round out th...

"we do stuff" has become a reoccurring phrase the past few weeks.  We are adventuring and having fun but they are small, daily, and often have day decisions; not large grandiose events that will wow anyone at a party or teacher in service week. Friday morning we awoke workout a plan.  By noon we were in the car heading to Rosholt to drop off the books for Ella... As long as we drove this far we might as well head to EC.  We took some back roads and eventually hit 10.  We grabbed some fresh curds from a small dairy and munched as we drove through the hills, fields and turns off the central forest. We met up with Bob& Nancy at there place before going to check out the skills competition at the Kubb championships.   It was some legit tossers and Amy immediately picked her favorite player "glitter shoes" from San Francisco.  We stopped at heartbreaker's off J for a drink and some more cheese curds before heading back...