Tuesday April 7th 2020

And on the ninth day of travel we have made it to Michigan, the home of Port Huron and the Blue Water Bridge, our route back to Canada. Tuesday morning and it’s a great day in Fisher Indiana, the trees are in blossom and the forecast is for 73 or 23 degrees with rain storms overnight, we are planning on picking up our final supplies this morning and then heading north on I-69 into Michigan and hopefully getting to the Lansing area for the night.

So in the interest of proper social distancing, Miss Laurie went for groceries at the local Miejers in Fenton before we headed north on I-69 toward Michigan, there was still no eggs, or toilet paper, a number of items were still limited to one per customer, I still don’t understand the whole hoarding thing, like seriously what the hell is the attraction to the butt floss, and what’s the deal with eggs, are the chickens on strike or what, we will be fine for a couple of weeks but this has been going on for over a month!

Well we decided to push a little further to day so we made it to Port Huron, where we filled our fuel tank, and sheltered at another Cracker Barrel within sight of the bridge to the Canada. So tomorrow will be an easier drive as we climb the bridge and get back onto Canadian soil. We have had a great five months with our America friends, enjoying the warmth and hospitality that most Americans offer so freely. We do regret that this virus is causing our friends so much pain right now. I am going to show the upmost respect to those in charge of keeping our friends safe.

So the winner of worst roads of all our travels this year has to go to Michigan, now we had been thinking that the perennial favourite would be Illinois, with Indiana being a close runner up but no, not this year. No this year Michigan has stepped up to be the State with the worst roads, not an award to be strived for but I have to say these roads were a whole new level of bad.

Now just as a goodbye gift we were treated to a lightning show at dusk along with a hail storm, the hail was only about the size of dimes but it does make quite a racket on the coach roof and the vents and skylight. It only lasted a few minutes, and no harm was done, but not a very nice send off … just saying

Monday April 6th 2020

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Well we crossed the mighty Mississippi this morning and are headed for Indianapolis Indiana, it is our hope to get a good day under our belt today as we close in on the border. We started today with another breakfast from Cracker Barrel as a thank you for another nights accommodation, there was only one other RV in the lot last night but we had seen lots on the road yesterday. Both Illinois and Indiana are under stay at home orders, well people from Illinois may have got the message but obviously people in Indiana did not get that message, or they didn’t understand the order, or possibly just don’t give a shyt about anyone else.

So guess where we are tonight, if you guessed a Cracker Barrel you would be right. We made up a few miles today clicking off 284 miles (457 kilometres) and that distance has us in Fisher Indiana on I-69 north of Indianapolis. So a quick check of Google Maps shows we are now 358 miles (619 kilometres) from the border, we have crossed another time line and are finally back in Eastern Day Light Saving Time, and I don’t mind telling you that is one of those things that does effect everybody’s sleep patterns.

So we finally got off of I-44 today as we bypassed St. Louis and hooked up with I-70 after a little detour for road construction and after bypassing Indianapolis to catch I-69 which will take us within a couple miles of the Blue Water Bridge. We had originally thought about heading up toward Chicago but decided to take the more eastern route toward Port Huron partiality because we remember how terrible Illinois roads were around Chicago, from previous trips, you now with all the extra road tax Illinois and Indiana charge on the price of fuel, maybe they could use some of it for road repairs, they are really the two worst states for road conditions of our trip north so far … just saying

Remember, be smart and stay healthy and well!