Day 2-281 resting (?) in Ludington, MI

    Ahhhh! Sleep, beautiful sleep. Nothing like waking up with a nice relaxing shower after a good nights sleep. After a late breakfast, we took off for a nice walk around town. We passed this local art gallery, and you can see the large painting of the SS Badger, which is the car ferry that I showed arriving in yesterday's post. Like most local towns that have a symbol of some kind, the Badger seems to dominate t-shirts, post cards, etc around Ludington. Indeed, she is an impressive sight, and tonight it is foggy so her arrival was even more impressive.

     We found a good place for salads for a late lunch. My chicken Caesar salad was very good even though the dressing was more like a lite Italian. The downtown is very clean (and graffiti free), and I particularly liked the combination of this very patriotic mural above an Irish pub.

     I finally left the Admiral and went back to the boat to nap when she found this (mainly) bead store, and it seemed like she was going to buy the place out. I sense some very busy days ahead with projects galore.

     There was also time later to do the engine room checks before tomorrow's departure. We have been watching the weather as we have moved south along Michigan's west coast. We plan to "hop" across Lake Michigan at some point and experience some of the Wisconsin shoreline. Tomorrow may be the big day! It will be a long trip of 90+ miles or about 12 hours so we need to watch the weather closely before and during the trip.

     The Admiral rode her bike about 1.5 miles to an Ace Hardware to get some CPVC pipe and fittings for yet another project that she is working on. Along the way she passed this wood sculpture being created. It appears to have been a dead tree that was cut off about 10 feet above the ground. Once again, you just never know what you are going to see next...

     The last "interesting" sight of the day was this building front . You can see what looks like alternating doors and pieces of a mural of the SS Badger. The pairs are on triangular pieces of wall that project out from the front of the building. If you stand over to the left, all that you see are the doors, and if you stand over to the right, you see the complete mural of the SS Badger.

     Here is a picture (on the left) taken from the right looking back at the wall. You can see the north side light house on the jetty with the SS Badger approaching the entrance to the channel into Ludington.