Green Bay & Manitowoc

Green Bay Packers have a great place to play, and what makes the place unique is that the local taxpayers own the stadium.

We got set up at Bay Shore County Park, and went to tour Green Bay. Carol called cousin Helen to get her new step-son's, Rick's, phone number. When we met Rick and Linda in Tennessee, they brought the best cheese. He graciously offered to take us to the Dairy where they get it. The next morning we met Rick at his home and he took us to Pine River Dairy....they had over 250 types of cheese...awesome! We tried cheese curds..and chocolate cheese...the lady below is making butter. We then picked up Linda from work and went to lunch.

On the way to Pine River Dairy, we saw these Elk that are being raised and re-introduced

Had dinner at Bret Favre's Restaurant

Yes, Deb, Steve wore his Panther shirt

Sampled Titletown Brewery's home brew, very good



The two story gift shop had everything a Packer Fan could want...truck full of cheese heads

Statue of Lambeau in front of the stadium pointing to coach Lumbardi below

This is a road sign we don't see in North Carolina!

Pictured Rocks in U P

We camped outside of Manistique in Northern Superior at Indian Lake Travel Resort. Yesterday we drove to Munising to catch a 2 1/2 hour Cruise to see the beautiful pictured rocks on the shore of Lake Superior. Today we are going to leave Michigan, and tonight plan to stay in Green Bay, Wisconsin...then on to Milwaukee.

The water is crystal clear blue green, and the colors from minerals are spectacular. Some of the shapes have been named. This first one is a Pirates Head with his hat

the bridge

The miners castle

U P Saturday night Fish Feast & Tahquamenon Falls

On a day trip, we went to Paradise to the Falls...wow, has a drop of 50 feet and over 200 feet across with over 50,000 gallons of water a second over the edge.
In St. Ignace we met two ladies in the grocery store who told us about the Fish Feast at the public marina, so we went to try whitefish. We saw one of the ladies there and learned more about being a local on Lake Michigan. She said the Lake freezes in the winter, and people drive snow mobiles to Mackinac Island on the ice...interesting.
On Monday, after laundry and getting oil changed (Steve took it to the Ford dealership..Wayne, you know how hard that was for the Chevy man), we came to Manistique in the U P to see one more attraction before we leave Michigan..the pictured rocks.

In 2007, there was a fish feast to celebrate 50 years of the Mackinac Bridge, and they decided to make the fish feast an annual event


Lots of the local population of about 3000 come out for this event

Tall ship at the marina..lots of boats as they was a group meeting here.





Had to wait until after 10pm for the dark before the fireworks could start.

U P to Soo Locks at Sault Ste. Marie

On Saturday, we drove to Sault Ste. Marie, the oldest city in Michigan and home to the Soo Locks. There is a city with the same name on the other side of the Ste. Mary's River in Ontario, Canada. We took a boat tour through the locks, and watched the water fill up to adjust to the more than 20 foot difference in the water level.


a eagle on his nest statue in the city

a freighter we passed on the boat tour

This is a view of the water level after it was filled

Here is the same structure view of the water level before it filled

A view of the international highway bridge

U P Mackinac Island

On Thursday we traveled to Straits State Park right over the Mackinac Bridge to the U P, and we got a great camp site. We stayed until Monday and really enjoyed St. Ignace area. We traveled from here to Mackinac Island. Transportation on the island is by bike or horse as you will see in the pictures below. This is where the movie Back in Time was filmed at the Grand Hotel with Christopher Reeve.


Luggage to the hotels on the bike...or horse pulled wagons

Never seen so many bikes!

We went on the 8 mile loop around the island..very nice ride along Lake Huron

On the ferry going over to the Island

From the ferry approaching the Island

The Mackinac Bridge is 5 miles long and connects the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. This is one of the longest single suspension bridge in the world.

Holly and Traverse City Michigan

We spent Monday night in Holly, and had dinner with Carol's Aunt Toni and cousin Kandi and her husband David. On Tuesday, we went to Traverse City...what a beautiful area! We are leaving here today to go to the Upper Peninsular...the U P



The Cherry Festival was last weekend, and cherries were everywhere..we ate a quart of them while we drove around. The Sleeping Bear dunes national lake shore is 30 miles away, and we visited after going to Old Mission and touring several wineries.and tasting new wines

We climbed a dune at the dune incline..hard going up but real fun going down.

The dune Steve is standing on is 450 feet high, and you can see Lake Michigan at the bottom..this was very steep incline so we didn't go very far on it

The lighthouse at Old Mission

The covered bridge on the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive that had overlooks of Lake Michigan and the Sleeping Bear Dunes

Squirrels are really dark


Traverse City State Park right on the shore of Lake Michigan

Here's the fam