{"id":743,"date":"2010-10-09T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/09\/michigan-trip-friday\/"},"modified":"2010-10-09T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T22:29:00","slug":"michigan-trip-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/09\/michigan-trip-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan trip: Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend and I took a few days off from work and took a trip up to Michigan. We got a pretty good start on Friday and – despite some arguments with the GPS – we drove on up to Cheboygan<\/a> to get a picture and then on up to Mackinaw City.<\/p>\n

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Editor’s note: Some parts of that area were called Mackinaw and others were Mackinac. I pretty much gave up trying to keep track. Both come from Michilimacinac<\/a> anyway and I’m not going to very particular about which spelling I use.<\/div>\n
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We caught one of the last ferry’s to the island for the evening. It was cold and raining a bit and we only went on deck for a little bit before retreating to the warmer cabin – not really a great start to the trip. The ferry docked and the bags we had checked in Mackinaw City were delivered right to the hotel room – by a cart pulled by a bicycle. The island doesn’t have any cars or trucks on it – it’s all bicycles, horse drawn carriages, and walking. So, after we got settled into the hotel room, we walked back towards “downtown” and found a place to eat called the Pink Pony – which, in Myrtle Beach, is the name of a gentleman’s club. As in, strippers. On the island, though, it turned out to be a pretty passable restaurant. We walked back to the hotel in the dark and called it a day. Here are a few pictures from the hotel – the Island House.<\/div>\n

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Every time we went down any of the hallways in this place, either one or both of us would quote those creepy little girls from the Shining<\/a>. “Come play with us,”<\/div>\n
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We referred to the hotel room itself as “quaint” – for values of “quaint” that include “small, weird, uncomfortable, and likely to result in a bruised head”.<\/div>\n
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My friend and I took a few days off from work and took a trip up to Michigan. We got a pretty good start on Friday and – despite some arguments with the GPS – we drove on up to Cheboygan to get a picture and then on up to Mackinaw City. Editor’s note: Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}