Great Scott, Great Lakes!

Well, hello there. We rolled into the cabin after a week on the road yesterday afternoon and are still shrugging off the last bits of road weariness. Let me tell you, it's a long, long ways from the woods to Grand Rapids, MI - about a 15 hour drive each way. Compared with the 2.5 days we spent visiting my brother and his girlfriend in MI, we definitely spent a disproportionate amount of time in the truck. Next time we'll allot more time for the journey.

I didn't do the best job of keeping a photo journal of the trip - we were too busy eating, drinking, and catching up - but brace yourself for a photobomb of the pictures I did take.

Leaving on Monday morning proved more difficult then we anticipated. The night before we had an ice/snow storm, which resulted in many downed trees along the Trail and a nearly two hour drive into town.

The four days, 30+ hours and approximately 1600 miles we spent on the road this past week were dominated by two things: 

Bridges: 

Mackinaw Bridge (left and top right)and Blahnik Bridge (bottom right)

and

Great Lakes:

Lake Michigan (top left and right), Lake Superior (bottom left), and Lake Huron (bottom right)

At long last, we reached the great city of Grand Rapids, MI:

Everything was green and blooming: 

Ahhh!

Here's the people I spent the week with:

Brother

Andy

 While in the lower peninsula, we visited the nature area where my brother worked for the last three summers. It was beautiful! 

We spent a lot of time on the road, but luckily the long miles were punctuated with amusing signs like this one:

Something went very, very wrong with this marketing campaign.

It was a whirlwind of a trip, but it was good to see my brother and I think all that time on the road may have inspired us to start planning for a more leisurely road trip some time not too far away.

Oh, and happy Earth Day! I'll be spending the day celebrating the goodness of Mother Nature by transplanting by transplanting some tomato plants that are ready to burst out of their seed starting tray.