After we crossed the border in Port Huron MI back into the US we were supposed to stop and camp for the night.  Well we got into the US pretty early, probably around 2pm.  So we decided that we might as well just keep going toward Aaron & Kathy Chambliss’ house in Grand Rapids, and save the $30 we would have to spend on a campsite.

The only problem was that we were not supposed to be at their house until the next day, so we needed to get a hold of them ahead of time to make sure it was OK if we came early.  Well we got to a campsite that was only 30 miles out from their house last night around 8pm.  We hadn’t heard back from them yet and so we decided to just go ahead and get a campsite.  Funny thing was that Kathy called us literally minutes after we got the site.

At first the campground looked pretty nice, there’s a big lake with stocked fish in it.  and lots of open space.  However there were a lot of mosquitos.  I tried walking over to the lake to cast out my line, and I couldn’t even cast out before I started getting literally swarmed in the face with mosquitos.  So we both set up our campsites and tried to go to bed pretty early.  This campsite however was pretty social, and so people were walking and talking by our tents til pretty late at night.  Which would not have been a problem except for one thing.  It violently started to storm around 6am, and when I say violently I mean hard rain, and thunder that came at the exact same time as the lightning over and over again.  I was honestly afraid, but I didn’t know if it was smarter to stay in my tent curled up in the fetus position under my sleeping bag, or get up and walk to the bathroom to seek shelter.  Eventually it calmed down enough for Ryan and I to both go to the bathrooms to wait out the rest of the storm.  Around 9am we were packed up and hit the road to Kathy & Aaron’s house, it was so nice to be a big nice dry house after another night camping in what became a small lake.

In the last 48 hours, we did 490 miles, which is a lot to us.

Total Miles: ~14,000

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