Quick Trip report
Jul. 18th, 2012 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_loddenCJ is doing more thorough trip reports over at his own journal. However, I grabbed a couple of pictures of things specifically because I thought "[Specific someone] will get a kick out of this!"
Sooo... for SD: Manistique has some plaster (ceramic? concrete?) mooses. Big Boy's is dressed like the Big Boy statues usually are.
Comfort Inn's moose is dressed for a formal party.
For JH: The Big Boy has several wooden structures for kids to play in/on. One of them is a big train, and I desperately want to build one just like it in your yard.
Today started off eventful in a bad way-- one of the tires was very very low. A quick jaunt over to Steve's Tires fixed us up, for a total expenditure of $12 and 15 minutes. Can I say how ridiculously happy I am about how low both of those numbers were?
We wandered off to Indian Lake to check out Kitch-iti-kipi, courtesy of someone's random link on Facebook (I think it was C) that sparked my interest a month or so ago. Crystal clear springs, with monstrously huge trout. The scenery was gorgeous, one of the ducks just would not shut up (it was entertaining watching as half a dozen other ducks got tired of his constant quacking and decided to fly at him en masse and run him off), and my fellow human beings were only somewhat stupid (one kid spit into the springs, and two people tossed coins into the water to watch them sink. There's signs all over the place about "Take only pictures, and leave only footprints.")
Sprint continues to ignore the existence of the Upper Peninsula, as well as northern Wisconsin, so communication options were limited for most of the day. John called just as we were getting back into the car after lunch, so I got to talk to him, so yay! I do wish he were better at road trips, because I keep thinking how he'd like the scenery.
Northern Wisconsin is weird, and I do not like it. The views are pretty, but the rest of it is of questionable sanity. In the UP, we came across a roadsign where someone had crashed into the right post and taken out all but "V", and I'd joked that up there, there were so few roads that they only needed one letter to identify them. In Wisconsin, all of the county roads are identified by a single letter, i.e. County Road A. (Our directions included taking T to TT to A to Oak-something to X. The one road we couldn't find and had to ask directions for? Oak-something. The guy we asked had never heard of it either, but directed us over to County Road C, which took us to County Road X.) Except... the letters reset for each County. So driving along WI-29, we crossed over three County Road Xs, plus Highway X and Highway XX, each miles and miles apart from the other (except for the two Highways, which were one right after the other). WI-29 is a piece of work in its own right: it's a divided highway, speed limit 65, mile marker signs, the works. Sometimes it has real highway exits, and sometimes it has crossroads, all mixed together. Also, people live on it, so there's driveways and mailboxes and once in a while there's a sign warning of a schoolbus stop coming up. Oh, and at least three signs in the 100-mile span we were on warning of horse-and-carriage crossings ("Next 5 miles", "Next 3 miles", and "Next 13 miles"-- "Next 13 miles" was about 2 miles down from "next 3 miles" so I don't know why they didn't just put up "Next 15 miles" at the first sign and be done with it).
Sooo... for SD: Manistique has some plaster (ceramic? concrete?) mooses. Big Boy's is dressed like the Big Boy statues usually are.
Comfort Inn's moose is dressed for a formal party.
For JH: The Big Boy has several wooden structures for kids to play in/on. One of them is a big train, and I desperately want to build one just like it in your yard.
Today started off eventful in a bad way-- one of the tires was very very low. A quick jaunt over to Steve's Tires fixed us up, for a total expenditure of $12 and 15 minutes. Can I say how ridiculously happy I am about how low both of those numbers were?
We wandered off to Indian Lake to check out Kitch-iti-kipi, courtesy of someone's random link on Facebook (I think it was C) that sparked my interest a month or so ago. Crystal clear springs, with monstrously huge trout. The scenery was gorgeous, one of the ducks just would not shut up (it was entertaining watching as half a dozen other ducks got tired of his constant quacking and decided to fly at him en masse and run him off), and my fellow human beings were only somewhat stupid (one kid spit into the springs, and two people tossed coins into the water to watch them sink. There's signs all over the place about "Take only pictures, and leave only footprints.")
Sprint continues to ignore the existence of the Upper Peninsula, as well as northern Wisconsin, so communication options were limited for most of the day. John called just as we were getting back into the car after lunch, so I got to talk to him, so yay! I do wish he were better at road trips, because I keep thinking how he'd like the scenery.
Northern Wisconsin is weird, and I do not like it. The views are pretty, but the rest of it is of questionable sanity. In the UP, we came across a roadsign where someone had crashed into the right post and taken out all but "V", and I'd joked that up there, there were so few roads that they only needed one letter to identify them. In Wisconsin, all of the county roads are identified by a single letter, i.e. County Road A. (Our directions included taking T to TT to A to Oak-something to X. The one road we couldn't find and had to ask directions for? Oak-something. The guy we asked had never heard of it either, but directed us over to County Road C, which took us to County Road X.) Except... the letters reset for each County. So driving along WI-29, we crossed over three County Road Xs, plus Highway X and Highway XX, each miles and miles apart from the other (except for the two Highways, which were one right after the other). WI-29 is a piece of work in its own right: it's a divided highway, speed limit 65, mile marker signs, the works. Sometimes it has real highway exits, and sometimes it has crossroads, all mixed together. Also, people live on it, so there's driveways and mailboxes and once in a while there's a sign warning of a schoolbus stop coming up. Oh, and at least three signs in the 100-mile span we were on warning of horse-and-carriage crossings ("Next 5 miles", "Next 3 miles", and "Next 13 miles"-- "Next 13 miles" was about 2 miles down from "next 3 miles" so I don't know why they didn't just put up "Next 15 miles" at the first sign and be done with it).
