Day Eight: Voyageur N.P. to Michigama, MI (392 mi)

We had a lot of miles to cover today to get us to our intended destination.  We're dealing with an unexpected reality of many campgrounds already closed for the winter.  There are a few still open, but most of those will close Oct 15th, so we're just getting in under the wire!  The private camp in which we've pitched tents tonight is right on the shore of a lake with the same name as the closest town.  After dinner (I'm entering this blog while Dail cooks supper for all of us) the plan is to avail ourselves of the laundry and do some much needed cleaning of clothes, after one week on the road.

Today's drive took us through Duluth, MN and across a bridge spanning part of Lake Superior.  Halfway across the bridge we transitioned from Minnesota into Wisconsin.  Much of our drive across Wisconsin, on Hwy 2, was either within sight of Lake Superior or a few miles of it.  The color was vibrant for much of the day's route and, as we were still off the interstate highway system, close enough to appreciate to its fullest.  Temperatures are still amazingly mild; it is 8:15 p.m. and I'm sitting outside in a short-sleeved shirt!

Michigan is the 9th state (including Texas) traversed during our trip to date, all of those except Texas being "first-timers" for Veritas.  We won't be in many states (of the 20 we will drive through) that are repeat visits for our school.  If we were to turn around and head back home tomorrow we would have already seen and experienced more in the last seven days than any other group of Waco school kids has done in an entire "career" of schooling, K-12 years combined.  But there is so much more to see and do during the next two weeks.  Check back in periodically to learn exactly what that might include.

Don't expect an entry tomorrow night as we are actually parking and backpacking it into our camp somewhere in the Pictured Rocks National Seashore along Lake Superior and will not have computer access (or any number of other amenities!).  This will be another first for Veritas as all our camping to date has been at drive-up sites.  I'll try to remember to let you know how the backpacking food fares among our various palettes.

This is Veritas, discovering our world, making a difference.