This trip to The Sleeping Bear Dunes on the northwest coast of Lower MI added about 3hours onto our trip from Grand Rapids to the Bridge, but I knew Tim would do it. He saw it on the map and thought it would be fun... The bummer of it all was that we were going to stop for lunch before we got there and I did see a Culver's sign and we thought it was just up ahead....it wasn't. So, we were all hungry and there are no food places....just cottages all along the route. Oh well. The kids didn't care a whole lot when they started running up! It was pretty steep, too! The camera does not do it justice. Tim got half way up and he got a phone call. It was a work day for him, so he spent the whole time we were up there talking to a guy from Iowa. Thanks a lot Iowa dude! Just a boring paper guy, too.... The kids ran up and down three times.....Erik wiped out once, but you don't get hurt!
Tim and Issy on their way up....before the phone call!
There's our van! Camper in tow with the bikes on the top. We are just waiting for the Carriers to join us sometime!
Here's the view from the top!
Ahhhh!! If I only had this on video!
Then afterwards we were trying to get back to the main highway....Tim hadn't been paying much attention to the gas gage when the light went on....well, at only 10.7 miles to the gallon it moves down pretty quickly. And, do you think there would be a gas station in such a touristy place!! NOPE!! But, about 25 scary miles down the road a gas station came out of no where. We were saved just in time. :) And, then found a late lunch about an hour later!
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