Interlochen, Traverse City and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore

We left Holland and drove a few hours to Interlochen, home of the famous arts festival,  It is right across the field and we can hear the marching band practice, memories of my high school days.


We are staying at Interlochen State Park, it is pretty busy and we are urban camping again.  Looks about the same, huh?

In the morning, I took the kayak to a couple of local lakes and caught some bass.  Largemouth are largemouth and once I figured out where they were it was fun and productive.  Hitting a plastic jerk bait.

Susan wanted to tour the old State Hospital here in Traverse City.  Most of you know that we met at the SC State Hospital.  The treatment model was the same as the State Hospital and they had a farm, store and cottages just like in Columbia.

Those towers were for ventilation, to keep the germs out of the patient rooms.

The old dining hall

The tunnel that nurses and other staff used to get around the facility.

Then we went into Traverse City and had a nice dinner- a very busy place and much larger than we expected.

Today, we drove over to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore, very beautiful and experienced the dunes, water and fog.

We came back to town and did this, it was time.

This evening, Susan cooked some stuffed peppers and we got organized to head up to Mackinac Island in the morning.

https://www.mackinacisland.org

We will spend three nights there.  If you are not familiar with it, there are no cars allowed so we are taking our bikes on the ferry.

Thanks for all your sweet notes and interest, be back soon.