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Flushing to Flushing: Day 2

On this day I discovered that there also exists a Flushing, Michigan.

Up by (holy!) Toledo, lunch in Ann Arbor. Thought about seeing the University I almost went to. Instead ate lunch at a grocery store. Up, up, up (u.p. later), bypass Detroit at all costs they said. Well I bypassed it at no cost. Take a jaunt to the coast in Bay City to see Lake Huron. Couldn't see Lake Huron, but saw a lot of car dealerships and a cheese shop where they sold "beer cheese". What a wonderful invention. Got stuck behind a truck with a "Git 'R Done" sticker on the back and decided it was time to hit the interstate again. Boring boring boring boring, oh kinda pretty, boring boring then hang a left at the town of Gaylord and oh! Pretty. Water! Driving out along the coast, the town of Charlevoix - lending credence to my belief that everything with a french name is better. Beauty of a coastal town, reminded me of Nova Scotia, particularly a more picturesque version of Cheticamp. Kept going along the coast, took a route I didn't know but it followed the coast and the nice thing about Michigan is that if you keep following the coast you're bound to hit the top. Which, in due time, I did. At sunset, got the requisite lovely photos of the Mackinac Bridge at sunset. Dinner at a local saloon with some fried walleye and a pint of local brew.

Town of the day: Michilichiwichigan. (Sounds like a good place for a picca-nicca-wicca-dicca, if you ask me).

posted by europhile @ 22:50