Chore Day

Got all our chores done. While I was doing laundry at the pool I saw this beautiful woodpecker on a tree. It had a bright red head, white breast, and black wings. We looked it up on line and it was a Red Headed Woodpecker. We had never seen one before.


The plan was to only spend 2 nights here, but we like the park a lot and decided to stay another day. The park is beautifully landscaped, all the sites have cement pads and an attached patio area with a built in fire pit. The sites are very large and plenty of room for the coach and car to be parked together.

Later we checked out the local bait shop. We checked out the public access sites and we may fish tomorrow on the Pere Marquette River.

Seems everyone goes for a walk or bike ride around the park after dinner. We talked with one of our neighbors and she suggested we go to Luddington, Michigan which is on the lake. She said it was a very nice town and very quaint. Maybe we will go tomorrow.

Pere Marquette RV Resort - what a find

Drove out of the Blue Chip in Michigan City about 8:45AM. We drove a few miles and found ourselves in New Buffalo, Michigan. We had breakfast in a little café called Michigan Thyme (cute play on words).

Continuing up Rte 12 the scenery got better and we turned onto the Red Arrow Highway. Stopping at an overlook where we could “sort of” see Lake Michigan for the first time we could only see a little of the lake. It was very foggy on the water and we’ve noticed there are a lot of heavy tree branches down in yards and along the road. We learned that there had been some serious storms all around us last night, but we fortunately missed it.

We got off the Red Arrow Highway and onto Interstate 194 in order to miss the little bumpy roads. WHAT A MISTAKE! The good old 2009 Recovery Act has everything torn up! The interstate is an old concrete road and it was full of holes. It was so bad the refrigerator door flew open and we had stuff all over the floor. As Ken is trying to get through Grand Rapids at 55MPH I am trying to clean up the mess. Once we got into camp we found we even had a broken glass in the cabinet. Argh…

We got off the interstate and onto Rte 37N which takes us into Manistee State Forest. This is a beautiful area. We will stop in Baldwin, Michigan tonight. There is an RV resort there and we need some down time as well as time to do laundry and house cleaning. Pulling in we felt like we were in a little village. We pulled through the gates and caused stir”. Ron and Jim are the managers and they love our “rig”. They came over to tell us that everyone wanted to know what kind of coach it was. We have done 2 tours already.

Settled in for the night. It is still hot and humid. A lot of the RV’s here are either seasonal or weekenders, but it is very nice.