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Running Away From Home: Gone North Part 3, Indulging
Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009 4:32AM / Standard Entry / Members only
10 commentsOne of my goals for this trip was to get Rhett to indulge a bit. He's in management. He does stuff becuz it has to be done. That's the way it is. He's not use to doing stuff becuz it'd be fun or becuz he simple wants to. Sooooo.... after we were settled in at our temporary home, I took him to dinner at Hooters. The food was excellent and the waitstaff was exceptional. No angry, bitter, nasty waitresses there! No sir! Just these pretty girls with personalities to match. I struck up a conversation with our waitress, Cassie, about the soups on the menu. I appreciate when a waitress has actually eaten the foods she's serving. Before we left, I asked Cassie if I could take a pic with her and Rhett. She was like, "sure!" No, I'm not sharing that one...After dinner, and a soak on the heart-shaped tub, we got a good night sleep. In the morning, we leisurely at our free breakfast in the hotel lobby dining room then got in the car headed to our first destination--Old Mission Point.For this I'm gonna need to get the maps out again...
OK, see the star? That's Traverse City where we were staying. Old Mission Point is at the end of the peninsula just above and a little to the right of that.I thought this was pretty funny. Ahhhh! There's a giant car driving over the whhhhoooole peninsula!
Along the way out to Old Mission Point, we passed a lot of cherry orchards. Why? Cuz in (FACTOIDS!) 1852, Peter Dougherty, a Presbyterian missionary, planted a cherry orchard on Old Mission Peninsula. No one knows exactly why he tried this agricultural experiment (though it's been suggested it might have been to satisfy his own sweet tooth
), but, quite unexpectedly, the cherry trees grew! It turned out, the sandy soil as well as nearby Lake Michigan tempering the Arctic wind in winter and cooling the hot air of summer provided an excellent growing environment for the cherry trees! Today with 3.8 million tart cherry trees, Michigan produces 70 - 75% of the tart cherries grown in the United States. Tart cherries are grown for pies, preserves, jellies, juice, dried fruit and other products; seldom for eating fresh. Every summer, in the first weeks of July, Traverse City is flooded with more tourists than usual for the Annual Cherry Festival.This is fun. It's a sign for the Traverse City public transit bus
Anyhoo, we headed up the peninsula to Old Mission Point. There's a lighthouse up there, but they wanted $4 each to go in
Pfff... We drove all that way in the cold and rain to see the light house and now we have to pay? I think not. Oh well. Lotsa pic from the outside...
I originally saw this little building from the back. I thought, "What a strange place for a smoke house." I thought it was a smoke house cuz it's got a chimney. Turns out that's not a smoke pipe, it's a stink pipe!
The lighthouse at Old Mission Point. Some people believe white "orbs" in photos are ghosts floating around the area. Hmmm... Hate to burst anyone's bubble, but these are rain drops the camera flash bounced off from. Look below. There's some really cool ones...Becuz there's so many people wanting to swim on a day like this--temp. mid to low 40s and raining...?Keeeeeeeeeeeeewl....! Looks like the beach is launching an attack on invading aliens or something. Nope. Just the light from the flash hitting raindrops. See all those black bumps out there? That's all mud and rocks. Understand why they needed a lighthouse here?Mission Point sits on the 45th Parallel-- that's halfway between the equator and the north pole.Some brave soul traipsed out in the mud and cold to leave a message for his/her love...
Awwwwwwwwww....
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