UP - Day 2
Fun times in Cable!! I woke up first and decided to get in the shower right away so I could get that done. When I got done, everyone else was up and getting coffee. Spent the morning looking out the beautiful picture window watching the leaves and the birds and just having fun conversation. Eileen made us a lovely quiche for breakfast along with oven fried potatoes, and toast with three kinds of home made jelly.
We hit the road around 10 am. Took state highway M west. It was a lovely drive and we started seeing fall colors. We decided to have our picnic lunch at the Lake Gogebic State Park. It is good to start eating our food and depleting what we have to carry!
We took a 3 mile hike in the park that was across the highway. It was quite lovely with filtered light coming through the trees but in places it was quite rocky and there were lots of tree roots to trip on. Every one tripped at least once but fortunately no one fell.
After that stop we still had 3.5 hours to drive to get to Munising, MI. It was a beautiful drive. We drove through Marquette.and then the rest of the way was along the shore of Lake Superior.
We finally arrived at our AirBnB around 7:30 pm. (We lost an hour since we transitioned from Central to Eastern time). Our apartment is on the second floor of a building downtown. It is above Whiskey Dick's. That got a couple of chuckles. I was surprised to find the white entrance door on the street open. We discovered that the door was not lockable. But we walked up the steep steps to discover there were several apartments up there. Another woman was walking down the steps as we were walking up. She said, be careful, the stairs are steep. Our apartment “B” was right at the top of the stairs. It is actually an ok place. Nice space and the bedrooms have neat side tables that allow you to plug in all your devices.
After leaving some of our luggage at the apartment, we headed out to dinner at Tracy's—a spot Clay had found online that looked promising. When we arrived, the sign outside read "Roam Inn.," but once inside, we realized Tracy’s was the restaurant housed within the inn. It turned out to be quite upscale and refined, but we were more than ready to eat!
To drink, I had a lovely Grüner Veltliner that brought back memories of our trip to Austria. For our meal, Jean and I shared the potato chip-crusted whitefish served with whipped Yukon Gold potatoes and asparagus topped with a roasted red pepper beurres blanc. We finished the night with a crème brûlée for dessert—it was all amazingly good!
We were all exhausted so we made the 3 minute drive home, took our bags out for the top of the car top carried and trudged up the stairs. It didn’t take long for us to all hit the sack.