It has been nearly a month since Hurricane Beryl hit (July 3^rd to be exact).  We still have heard nothing from insurance and have no direction.  Usually, we are good at wandering aimless but this time, it’s different.  During the last month we have managed to make another trip to Georgia to visit with my parents and spend two weeks in Columbus visiting the girls.  Having the RV has made our time back in the states easier but we both still miss the boat.

Ron spent 5 days travelling to Grenada to secure the boat as soon as the island opened, and the ferries were running.  He said it was a miserable trip and the devastation on Carriacou is immense at best.  We also found a lot more wrong with Mariposa than just the mast which was another fear we had.  There is a huge crack in the roof of the super-structure and there was water running down the walls when he got there.  It was initially hidden by the boom but when he actually got on board the damage to the hulls and roof were obvious.  I am glad he made it back just before the major tech outage became an issue.  And still, we wait on insurance so we can have a direction.

We are heading to Columbus mid-September, so we need to stay somewhat close which changes our initial plans of heading out west for the moment.  Landing on the idea to visit the upper peninsula of Michigan we thought it would be a good distraction to be some place neither of us had visited before.  Our first stop was hiking the old growth forest, Hartwick Pines, near Grayling, Michigan where we stopped at the logging museum and ended up at the chapel.

Taking off to Tahquamenon Falls a couple of days later we had finally arrived in the Upper Peninsula. 

All I can say is my love affair with Michigan is over.  The natural beauty is splendid but there are few gas stations that carry diesel (count that as nearly running out once on our way here), lots of bugs, and way more people that I expected.  I am not sure what it is about the Michigan campsites, but they are packed and could not be closer together.  We saw the falls yesterday and it was one of the more spectacular ones we have seen.  Not sure where we are headed next but it will likely be the west side of Lake Michigan or the southern coast of Lake Superior.