Back in the USA!

Tue. Sept. 20 Back to the USA: The trees dripped all night long but the next morning was perfectly clear and it had only gotten down to the low fifties overnight. We packed up the trailers and were on our way by our customary 10:00. Just north of Grundy Lake we pulled over at the French River Visitors Center (which was closed) so we could walk on the suspension bridge over the river that we had seen from the nearby highway. It turned out to be the longer of two bridges built by the Voyageurs Snow Club for snowmobiles to cross over the Pickerel and French rivers. It afforded us a nice view up and down the river from 100 feet over it. Back on the road we drove north to Sudbury and then west towards Sault Ste. Marie. We stopped at a roadside park to enjoy our picnic lunches and continued on to “The Soo”. The autumn color along the highway was the best we had seen so far, the sun was shining, and it was in the low seventies all afternoon, which made for a really pleasant though long day of driving. In an attempt to get back to The States without a lot of extra high priced gas we made several stops to add just a bit more. Once again we breezed through Customs and we were back to Michigan. Pat knew of a campground right on the Saint Mary’s River that was cheaper than what we had been paying in Canada and had water and free WiFi at our site so we set up on two tiny lots and went to get dinner. Ross and Pat treated us to a dinner at Clyde’s Drive-In to thank us for planning the trip and the extra driving Marv had done on side trips. Each couple shared a “Big C” burger and an order of onion rings and we each had a shake or a malt to complete the experience. As we ate in the truck, we watched a couple of freighters pass each other in the river and saw the Sugar Island Ferry make a trip from the island to the mainland and back. Back at the campers we had to batten down the hatches because there was a 60% chance of rain tonight, tomorrow, and tomorrow night.