Day 60

Seeing What We Can See

Jul 5, 2013, 4:09 PM

WOW officially two months today we have been on the road!!!! Our time in Cedarville, Michigan is quickly coming to a close. We leave on Monday. It seems like we've only just gotten here, not a week ago. We wanted to drive along Lake Michigan a little today, so we started out after a slow morning. We weren't in any particular hurry, we thought we might get to do some hiking. There really isn't much along this stretch of northwestern Lake Michigan, except wilderness. There are beaches all along the highway, you can just park your car and trek down to the water. There are a few road side campgrounds. They are very primitive, but they are almost right on the beach. That would be really cool, but I am not a "primitive" kind of girl. I need (and want) all my facilities. 

We found a nice little place to have lunch. Our waiter, God love'm, it seemed like last week he might have been the busboy. He was very pleasant and he was working all the time, but you could just tell he was out of his comfort zone. When he wasn't clearing a table or taking an order or delivering food I could see him hunched over a calculator scribbling like heck on the checks. He had a cut high on his check bone like maybe he'd walked into a fist a few days ago. You could tell he was trying hard though and my heart went out to him. We were very patient and we left an adequate tip, even though the service really didn't qualify for a decent tip.

After lunch we continued on and found the Garlyn Zoo. We weren't going to bother going to this one. We didn't get a discount with our Philadelphia Zoo membership and it looked like it might be a mom and pop kind of operation, but Steve wanted to check it out. As we suspected, it was a mom and pop place, but it was nice. It was very small but the animals seemed well kept and the people were very friendly. We did see one thing I've NEVER seen before. We went over to one of the cages and there was a dead animal on the ground. I was shocked thinking they'd let one of their animals die and then leave it, or they weren't even aware that it had passed, then a tiger poked his head up, GROSS!!! This was dinner for the tiger. Yuck!!!!! I have never seen a zoo do that before. A guy that works there or one of the owners, I don't know what, was standing there. We found out, talking to him, that they'd just gotten the tigers, there were two, on Monday. They had them spayed and just yesterday they started coming around, so they put a dead goat in the cage. The owner's thought the tigers would have devoured more of the goat but so far the tigers were playing with the carcass more than anything. While we were watching the one tiger grabbed the goat and was dragging it around a bit. I asked if they'd put the goat in there alive or dead. I wasn't sure if they were trying to keep the tigers entertained or what, I've never seen a zoo give the large cats anything more than something resembling ground beef. This was a new experience for me. After that the rest of the zoo was uneventful and just a typical zoo.  Spanky was thrilled we did another zoo, he said too much time had gone by since the last one.  

After the zoo we drove some more. This is such a beautiful area. The road we were on was taking us right along the Lake Michigan shore. We stopped at overlooks when we saw them. We spotted a boat ramp and went back to have a look. It was very nice. Steve was jealous that it was such a perfect boat ramp and nobody was using it. He said in Florida you'd be waiting for sure to launch. I reminded him that his experiences have all been on the weekends, when we get home and he takes the boat out on weekdays it will be very different (hopefully). We drove on a little more and saw a sign for a recreation area so we turned in. Steve said he was really in the mood for a chocolate milkshake. How can I turn that sort of thing down. So we drove through this little vacation town, Curtis, on a lake, I'm not sure which one, it may even be Lake Curtis for all I know. Don't you know, they have an old fashioned ice cream parlor. We had the best pre-dinner desserts. I haven't told Steve yet, but I don't really need dinner after that. I had a sundae, it was big and wonderful. Now we are on our way back to the RV. Hopefully the wifi or hot spot will be working better tonight so I can upload my blog. The next location boasts cable TV, oh that will be nice, and wifi, but then this place said they have wifi too, and they do it just doesn't work well enough. What're ya gonna do?