Thursday is another easy driving day. We're just moving half way across Michigan to a little private rv park that's a couple of hours away. We drove east on a state highway that took us through some absolutely gorgeous countryside. "Christmas tree" pines flourish here; in fact, there are tree farms all along this road with long rows of baby spruce and pine trees growing up to be decorated trees in the future. Wineries abound here, too, though I can't convince John we need to stop to check them out.
We're on our way to an rv park close to where Cindy and Scott Weaver live. I've planned a brief stop to visit with them after we had talked and I shared with her that we were making this trip. Cindy was the Association's president the year before me, and we became good friends. Scott is a renowned artist in the decorative and handmade tile field. Check out their Web site at
www.weavertile.com.
We were lucky enough to get to go through his studio to see works in progress. They moved an old barn onto their property and rebuilt it board by board to use as his studio. Wouldn't you know that I'd leave my camera behind so didn't get any photos of their beautiful house or the studio. I'm hoping to get Cindy to send me some so I can share those with you. Both of them have worked hard on their landscaping, and if I hadn't known better, I'd have thought we were in paradise. They took us all to dinner at a local restaurant then we returned to their house for dessert. Scot and their son had picked fresh strawberries the day before so Cindy could make fresh strawberry pies. Josh had never had strawberry pie, so what a way to introduce them to him!
After a bit more visiting, we wended our way through wooded country roads back to the campground where we enjoyed a nice, quiet rest. John and I sat outside enjoying the peace and quiet under the canopy of trees. This is truly a great way to spend a vacation.
Friday morning, three of us got up early to enjoy some outdoor time before packing up to move on again. I say three because Josh was still in one of his favorite positions. Once we got him up and going, he's great at helping grandpa get ready to move on. He's got moving the leveling jacks up and down and pulling the slide in and out down to a science. He also makes up his bed every night and puts it back every morning without being told - mostly.
Skooter has become quite the veteran traveler now. He takes guard duty, or is that watch duty as he's quite the little visitor, quite seriously. Check out that stance - he's ready to take on all comers!
We left the rv park and started east to Ann Arbor. From there we'll go south and around the lower edge of Lake Erie and up to the Erie KOA campground to spend the night. We stopped in a little town just before crossing into Ohio for lunch. This was Josh's introduction to the Big Boy chain. Apparently they have done away with the statues by the front doors. John said that the restaurant they used to have in Bellaire was constantly on the search for their stolen statue. We got to chat for a few minutes with one of the waitresses. She'd been to Houston last year, so we swapped stories about heat and humidity. We've found that the humidity near the lakes is pretty close to what we endure in Houston even though the temperatures are lower.
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