Metris Getaway Adventures

  Better a late vacation than none at all - so in mid September we took a week and hit the road. In my prior posts, I mentioned that Michigan is our Happy Place, and that we've been itching to get back.  We have our favorite haunts on the shore of Lake Michigan from Warren Dunes all the way up to Manistee, so planning was easy.  Off season made it even easier.   After a stop at Reender's Blueberry Farm in Grand Haven, we pulled into our favorite campground on Saturday evening. We had our normal site reserved.  Everything was how it had been, except the neighbors had changed.  The campground has added disc golf, so the "typical" camper profile has altered slightly.  We had some VERY ROWDY young men camped next to us - I mean like RIGHT next to us.  Their picnic table was 3 foot from our side window.  The music blared non stop. They were in a vintage bus size motor home style RV and that meant there was no other mode of transportation for ...

  We decided to go camping Labor Day weekend.  Normally, this is something we avoid like the plague, since the campgrounds are always so full.  But my step mom wanted to go see the newly placed headstone on my Dad's grave, and we both had days off, so we agreed to  head to Southern Illinois.  Friday afternoon, after much time on the phone, I found a campground that was very central to the activities we had planned, and had sites available.  It didn't have much information on the internet, so I figured that was why it had sites open.  The person stated she was new as the manager, and had not yet updated the internet data.  Saturday morning we hitched the trailer, picked up Barb, and hit the road. Family teased us about stuffing her in the overhead bunk of the Metris, but we assured them we were taking the trailer, so she would have a king size bed all to herself! It's was a 5.5 hour drive from home, so we stopped for a break in Marion, IL to pick u...