{"id":744,"date":"2010-10-10T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/10\/michigan-trip-saturday\/"},"modified":"2010-10-10T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T20:36:00","slug":"michigan-trip-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/10\/michigan-trip-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan trip: Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early breakfast at the hotel and we were off.     On foot.  We decided not to rent bicycles or a carriage and instead began a self-guided walking tour of the island.   The first stop was the Grand Hotel &#8211; which, living up to it&#8217;s name, charged $15 just to enter the building and walk on the porch.  We declined.  Instead, we continued on past the hotel and found a couple of neat walking trails through the woods.  The next stop was the historical reenactment at the fort.  I was a little less than impressed, but the muskets and the cannons were cool.   <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>20 minutes for lunch at a pizza place and we were off again &#8211; this time to check out the shops and the downtown area.  I was looking for some souvenirs, but everything was either vastly over-priced or &#8220;cheap&#8221;.   I walked away empty handed, but my friend got a book on ghosts of the island.  After a short break at the hotel, we set out again &#8211; this time, following the book to locate the haunted areas.   We didn&#8217;t see any ghosts (it was afternoon, after all), but we did see a lot of the island and got lost a few times.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After a few more hours of walking, we headed back to the hotel to soak in the hot sauna and swim in the pool.  Feeling a little more human, we headed out again to get some dinner.   Over all, I think we were walking about 8.5 hours that day through some pretty rough terrain at times.  Maybe 20+ miles? It was a hard to tell &#8211; what with the &#8220;getting lost&#8221;.   Still, we saw a lot more of the island than most visitors do and had fun doing so.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6913097901389264887-7353061326065588970?l=thunderofwade.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early breakfast at the hotel and we were off. On foot. We decided not to rent bicycles or a carriage and instead began a self-guided walking tour of the island. The first stop was the Grand Hotel &#8211; which, living up to it&#8217;s name, charged $15 just to enter the building and walk on [&hellip;]<\/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-744","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\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}