Back in the USA

Yesterday we crossed over the international bridge in Sault Saint Marie. This is probably our last minute in Canada. You can just see the Canadian flag on the left and the US flag on the right as we approach the border. Again the border crossing was a non-event. It probably added 15 minutes to our trip, almost all of that waiting for others. Our inspection was about 90 seconds.

We came to Brimley State Park, Michigan’s oldest state park, right on the shore of Lake Superior and just minutes from Sault Saint Marie, MI. I think you can see the cities in this photo, they are in the break in the shoreline just a bit right of center. It is probably the Ontario side you’re seeing from here.

I’m happy to be back on one of the Great Lakes and last night’s sunset was gorgeous.

This is a pretty park. It has 287 camp sites, but fortunately this time of year most of them are empty.

We had a nice site, site 185, that backed up on the day use area. Not many folks there these days so it was pretty private and that big open area gave us a view of the lake.

I said we had that site because although there was open sky behind us for Bud to get TV it wasn’t working.

So today we moved to site 94. A little less private and no view of the lake, but still pretty and the TV worked first try.

We weren’t planning to do much today, anyway. A good thing about being back in the US is that our medical insurance works, so we scheduled appointments and got three shots. The latest COVID shot went in my right arm and high dose flu and RSV in the left.

I did have the energy to add Michigan to our travel map, so it has all the patches it’s going to get for a while. That’s a lot of miles to pull a trailer and I count that we’ve set up in a campground 137 times since we sold our house – not counting the times we’ve switched sites to get TV!