U. P. Trip - Fall 2010 - Day #10

This was a gentle and pleasant day.  The weather is still ideal and Marissa continues to feel better and better.  The hotel must be full for the weekend as the breakfast room was crowded & the hot food was going as fast as the server could put it out, but we did well before embarking.

In some ways it was a sentimental journey for John as we had not done this little excursion last year and it had been the last exploratory drive that Maria & John had made together to somewhere new.  Mostly on paved roads and partly on well maintained unpaved roads we went to the very bottom of the top of the Keweenaw, in other words over the channel and then down to where it first starts from the giant bay on the east side of the peninsula.  There is a small park and a long beach there and once again Zoe was able to run and run and frolic in and out of the water.

After running back up alongside the channel we diverted and went to Calumet where we stopped and tourist shopped, but not to excess.  Then we found the main regular shopping plaza and bought fast food.  Heading away and looking for a nice place to eat it we noticed the road which will take us to the cabin tomorrow and followed it to its end, eating next to where we think the cabin is, twenty feet from the lake.  After that we took a pretty road in a semi-circle back to Hancock, across the bridge and up to the hotel for a leisurely period of R & R (or was that Z & Z).

Later we went down to the shoreline & all three of us did the same walk as Zoe & John had done yesterday before heading back up to the Super Wal-Mart near the hotel to stock up our traveling pantry ready for moving in to the cabin tomorrow.  Back at the hotel we reorganized the van, after mopping up from the result of the cooler's drain having come open, and are ready for leaving here, touring around and ending up at the cabin tomorrow afternoon.

Just a couple of pictures were added to the set that covers the trip and that may be found here.