Daydream's Great Loop Blog!

I am getting days and days behind in my blog, I am still writing but have not had enough internet at Turnbull Island, Pilot Cove, Marquette Bay or here at Mackinac Island to run Blogger!
 
Pat check out places like "Horn's Bar" on Main street. The hotels might be password protected. But I suspect that most of the bars and eateries have open WI Fi.

We wondered if you fell off the edge of the internet world!
 
Pat Anderson":3gvo05pu said:
I am getting days and days behind in my blog, I am still writing but have not had enough internet at Turnbull Island, Pilot Cove, Marquette Bay or here at Mackinac Island to run Blogger!
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We have found a signal booster to be helpful at times. The one we use is a Wilson (weBoost) Sleek 4G. It won't give you a signal when there is none available, but it has taken a weak, painfully slow signal and bumped it up to usable. We have had to use it a few times in the last month while RVing through the northeast.

We have been using the a/c most of the time, too. :wink:
 
Congrats on making it to the half way point! What a helluva trip so far. What is your water miles traveled, and hours run at the half way point?
 
Spike":12x9qck0 said:
Congrats on making it to the half way point! What a helluva trip so far. What is your water miles traveled, and hours run at the half way point?
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Thanks, Chuck! Engine hours are 463.8 and miles are 2828 (statute miles) from Ortona Lock in Florida to Mackinac Island. I have another engine service set up at at Irish Boat Shop in Harbor Springs on Little Traverse Bay about 60 miles from here. I think we are more than halfway through, according to Capt. John's mileage numbers, but we'll see! Also, once off Lake Michigan, we are looking forward to the push from the river currents!
 
Just backed the trailer in to the Cabrillo Beach launch ramp. Don't think I could do it with horses as they do in the summer on Mackinac Isle.

However, during the winter, when we talked to the UPS person, we learned that the horses disappear and the snowmobiles appear. The Island goes gas burning, not gas producing!

Boris
 
journey on":5gm2hcqu said:
Just backed the trailer in to the Cabrillo Beach launch ramp. Don't think I could do it with horses as they do in the summer on Mackinac Isle.

However, during the winter, when we talked to the UPS person, we learned that the horses disappear and the snowmobiles appear. The Island goes gas burning, not gas producing!

Boris
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Yes, on our carriage tour, we learned the horses disappear in the winter and the snowmoibles appear! We were told there was a court case that went to the Michigan Supreme Court as to whether that violated the ban on motor vehicles! Snowmobiles won, on the questionable grounds that they were not being driven on the '"roads" but rather on the snow covering the roads! They get an average of 120" of snow each winter! Maybe a decision of practical necessity, too!
 
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