Movin' Right Along

Wisconsin State Fair Grounds 6/25-6/27 and 6/27-6/30 Springfield, Illinois So our next stop was Wisconsin.  We actually chose to stay at a State Fair Grounds.  These Fair Grounds are all different.  When we stayed at the one for our Rally in Indiana we were in the middle of a Horse Race Track.  For this one we were in the middle of a Parking Lot-literally.  But for what we wanted for this stop it was perfect.  We had decided to go to a Milwaukee Brewers baseball game and this fairgrounds was just around the corner from the ball park.  Made it a lot easier than when we head to Boston with a couple hour drive depending on traffic.  So we got checked in and decided to make a nice dinner and take a walk. The next day was the game.  We had been to the park in one of our previous trips.  But it was nice going again.  They do have a dome over it but it was open for the game.  It was a little warm to start but as the night went on ...

Munising MI 6/22-6/25 This travel day was fairly short.  We decided to travel fairly close to Judy and John just to be sure that all went well and it did.  We got to the campground and suddenly something someone told us at our Heartland Rally this year quickly came to my mind.  BIG MOSQUITOS!!!! up there!  Yes they told me they were plentiful and be sure to have bug stuff.  Luckily our site was out in the open and there were a few but Judy said when they were setting up it was worse than a Horror Mosquito Movie, there were swarms of them.  Their site was more wooded than ours.  They tried to change but the campground was pretty booked so they put up their screen room just to have somewhere to go without getting attacked.   Soon after we got there David(Elizabeth's brother)arrived.  He had driven up from Minnesota for a couple of days.  Nathan and Elizabeth got in later afternoon.  They had gone on a hike and Nathan was...

Mackinaw City/Mackinac Island 6/20-6/23 We packed up to head onto Mackinaw City.  With both parents having to travel with the campers, the kids had their own car so they headed out to do some exploring on the way up to our next stop.  Judy, John, Steven and I decided to just head right to the campground.  That is the one tricky thing with the campers, if you want to stop along the way you have to be sure there is parking that will accommodate the camper and truck, not always easy to find.  We were almost there and as we were driving we saw a camper(actually similar to Judy and John's)stopped on the highway.  As we passed the trailer we realized it was Judy and John.  So we quickly pulled over.  They said their car just totally died.  They had AAA so they were going to call them and figure things out.  Unfortunately they didn't have towing for the camper on their AAA.  So we told them once the car got towed we would head back to them a...

Traverse City, Michigan 6/16-6/19 So after Nathan and Elizabeth got married they talked to us about an idea they both had.  With her family in Minnesota and us living in Massachusetts and they would be heading to St. Louis they wanted to create a yearly combined family camping trip to a new destination each year.  We all thought it was a great idea.  Last year, since they had just relocated to St. Louis, we made that year destination-St. Louis.  We had a nice time last year but with the unusually HOT summer we all said next year we are going somewhere that is much cooler and we came up with the idea of the UP of Michigan.  So that will bring us to the next week of our trip. We decided to call it the yearly Thompson/Jacobsen Rendezvous. Ok so the last 8 days have definitely been more "Vacation Mode".   I am going to break the trip up into the 3 different areas we stopped at.  This first post today will cover our Traverse City stop. ...