Sunday drive

The Escapees Chapter #6 Hart Rally ended this morning.  Pictures of this past week can be seen on the Chapter Blog.  So this afternoon we took a Sunday Afternoon sightseeing drive with Jim & Maralyn Kimmins.

Silver Lake Michigan

We stopped at Open Hearth Grill in Mears for lunch.

Pentwater Michigan

Ludington Michigan

Yesterday's drive to Hart

Yesterday morning we packed up the rig and headed out following Al & Barb Packman in their motorhome.  We were heading for John Gurney Park in Hart Michigan for the Escapees Great Lakes Chapter 6 fall rally.  Shortly after starting out it began to rain and it rained most of the rest of the way, very hard at times.  Not the kind of weather we really like to travel in.  (Never use a preposition to end a sentence with!!)

142 miles and we pulled in to the park and were met by the smiling face of Barb Hargreaves the point person of our parking crew. While starting to unhook the car one of the locking caps on the tow pins jammed and it took me several minutes in the rain to get the car unhitched from the motorhome.  Once unhooked Dale Hargreaves guided us into our parking place for the week.

It finally quit raining by 4:00 social time in the club house.  And after social 20+ us us went to dinner at Kristi's Pour House in downtown Hart.

So this morning here is the Patton's and Packman's motorhomes parked side by side again,

Houghton Lake MI

Happily parked in Pack man's yard next to their Ultrasport.

Tuesday both of us will travel over to Hart MI for the fall Chapter #6 fall rally.

Yesterday's trip to Houghton Lake

Yesterday we packed up the coach and said goodbye to Camp Lord Willing for the winter.  I decided to try to get west of the rain so we headed for the Flying J on the west side of Lansing instead of heading north on I-75 to the Flying J north of Flint.  We came upon a 3 mile traffic tie up near Lansing just before the rest area where we planned to stop for lunch.

We did have some sprinkels while we were in the traffic tie up and we had a couple of pretty heavy rain showers after we left Flying J and drove north on US-127 between Alma and Mt Pleasant.  We did manage to avoid most of the heavy rain that was crossing Michigan.
After 235 miles and about 4:30pm we backed into Al & Barb Packman's driveway in Houghton Lake.  We will spend the holiday weekend visiting with these good friends and next Tuesday morning the 4 of us with 2 motorhomes will drive over to Hart Michigan for the Chapter #6 fall rally.