About Us
We are a brother (Detroit, MI) and sister (Houston, TX) who love to travel together to parts unknown. This year my sister flew into Detroit and we began our journey West. Stops include Davenport, IA, the Amana Colonies in Amana, IA, Marengo, IA, Des Moines, IA, Omaha, NE, Grand Island, NE, Rapid City, SD, Sioux Falls, SD, several cities in MN including Mankato, MN, Wisconsin Dells, WI, Marinette, WI, Mackinaw City, MI and back to Detroit.
We are also stopping for selfies and pictures along the way at some very interesting and unusual out of the way places that you will see in the blog. Enjoy!
Fun Facts:
- Total Miles Driven so far: 3,050
- Average Miles Per Gallon for the entire trip so far: 56.5 MPG
- Average Miles Per Gallon today: 67.8 MPG
- Car being driven: 2016 Prius 4
- Miles Driven Today: 220 Miles
- Weather: Perfect with temps around 80
Today was another busy day filled with checking out the new Navy war ships being built in Marinette, WI, driving to a new location (our last before coming home), geocaching, taking pictures of the Mackinaw Bridge and eating whitefish and pie at a great restaurant.
Marinette is the home of a factory that builds the Staten Island ferries and for the last several years, they are building the new generation of war ships. They are rumored to go as fast as 50 knots or more.
There isn't too much to report about the drive other than driving along the Lake Michigan shoreline is beautiful. We had a stiff wind and I have to tell you that when your drive across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, you will experience all kinds of weather and temperatures. In our case today, we had temperatures ranging from a chilly 63 degrees to a high of 88 degrees. Unreal.
On the way today, we turned over 3,000 miles of driving on our trip! As you can see, our average MPG during the entire 3,000 miles is 56.8 MPG.
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| Traveled over 3,000 miles on this trip |
We had some fun geocaching but I managed to obtain in injury today (just a scratch but a bleeder).
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| Logging a geocache |
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| Inside a geocache container |
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| Logging a geocache |
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| Blood on a napkin from the "scratch" |
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| The scratch |
We then had some fun at a local Starbucks.
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| Bear wrestling |
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| Sneaking up on a bear |
Ugh! One of the most frustrating things we have encountered is SLOW WIFI. Tonight is really bad. It was great before everyone checked in but now it is terrible.
Due to the slow Internet, I'll just add a couple of pictures of the Mackinaw bridge.
Good night!
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