Happy St. Georges Day!!
Finally hit the road around 9AM after a few last minute close-up chores around the house. Our fist place of interest (for some) is a (wait for it…. drum roll etc) a quilt store located at some back woods place in Wisconsin, which is about 1500km from home. Too much for one day, but it did allow us a choice of routes. We could go the conventional route using mostly highways / motorways, routing south of the great lakes, or we could go north of the great lakes on less sophisticated roads. As we had not done the northern route before, we opted for that one.
It was a pleasant, but cool day starting off at 2C and topping out at 9C but sunny for most of the trip. The scenery was definitely better than sitting on the highway all day and many of the lakes were still iced covered along the route.
We made it as far as Sault Ste. Marie (Michigan) before calling it a day. Once we got checked into the motel, we felt we needed a little exercise, luckily there was a geocache about 1/2 mile away so we took a walk to find it. En route we had to cross a Walmart parking lot, and saw something we had never seen at a Walmart before.
Such progress in the USA!
The cache was an easy find, our first in Michigan.
After a standard way too much to eat American meal, it was back to the motel to prepare for day 2.