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Our blog started as a Travelog (my wife Sarah and I followed The Dead and Phish in an RV summer of 2004) - but now it is Mr. Mike's blog about life and that sort of thing. A working class family man - trying to start our own hippie business and managing telemarketters all the while.
Friday, October 08, 2004
Day 51: July 26
Today we woke up from the armpit and wanted to get the hell out of here! We were about an hour and a half away from the KOA campground in Columba MI and that's where we were headed. We got everything put away and ready to drive, but when I tried to start the RV our battery was dead. I guess I used the laptop way too long because we had no juice - the control panel still showed 3/4 strength on the battery but I guess there wasn't enough left. We were starting to get nervous about being stuck at this horrible truck stop when I remembered the Emergency Start mechanism of the RV. This is a feature in case your dumb ass used too much of the battery power - it uses the power of the vehicle battery and the 2 smaller house batteries to get you up and running. We had never tried it but it worked no problem and we were on our way.
The Indiana Dunes Lake Shore was only about a half hour up the road and we were there in no time... This is a park that I have been wanting to check out for a while but it had never worked out. There is always a sign for it from the Interstate that entices but it's hard to break the momentum. This time was diferent though and we were checking out the park. We pulled in to the ranger station and got our maps and went down to the beach. This was the shoreline of Lake Michigan and it was just awesome - I had never experienced a fresh water lake like this that was so much like being at the ocean - incredible... we spent most the afternoon just on the beach - Sarah was looking through rocks and stuff and I was wading in the water - very good day. When we left the beach we headed up to Mount Baldy - which is where the dunes really are - but we didn't really explore this part. They say it is a living mountain that moves so much every year which is intriguing but you had to hike up this huge thing before you could see any of it and there were a lot of crying kids and the like - so we headed for our campground with the hot tub instead. The KOA was another hour or so up the road around the big lake and we were there before we knew it. We had stopped for beer and groceries and got settled in and commenced to have a great time. We did end up going to the hot tub - but it was no bueno - very bad hot tub. It was lukewarm at best, only about half full and there was a cigarette butt floating in it when we got there. There were some shady campers here too - your regular mustache man with the shades and hat pulled low - at the pool area checking out the chicks - pretty sketchy. So Sarah and I went and sat in the sauna since the hot tub sucked and it felt slimey. We did this for a bit after we realized that the sauna wasn't hot either and then went back to home base. We enjoyed our campsite as we relaxed with beers around sunset - overall this was a nice park minus the hot tub experience and Sarah wanted to talk to the manager about it all before we left tommorrow - we only had 3 hours to go to the DTE Energy Center for The Dead show tomm. (formerly known as the Pine Knob Music Theater) just another amphitheater bought out by the corporate man. I don't quite recall exactly what we did all night - I know it rained some and we had a busy family as neighbors on one side - but we had the kitty out on her elastic leash and enjoyed the night to ourselves. Tommorrow was a quick drive across Michigan to the northwest suburb area of Detroit - to Clarkston.
Today we woke up from the armpit and wanted to get the hell out of here! We were about an hour and a half away from the KOA campground in Columba MI and that's where we were headed. We got everything put away and ready to drive, but when I tried to start the RV our battery was dead. I guess I used the laptop way too long because we had no juice - the control panel still showed 3/4 strength on the battery but I guess there wasn't enough left. We were starting to get nervous about being stuck at this horrible truck stop when I remembered the Emergency Start mechanism of the RV. This is a feature in case your dumb ass used too much of the battery power - it uses the power of the vehicle battery and the 2 smaller house batteries to get you up and running. We had never tried it but it worked no problem and we were on our way.
The Indiana Dunes Lake Shore was only about a half hour up the road and we were there in no time... This is a park that I have been wanting to check out for a while but it had never worked out. There is always a sign for it from the Interstate that entices but it's hard to break the momentum. This time was diferent though and we were checking out the park. We pulled in to the ranger station and got our maps and went down to the beach. This was the shoreline of Lake Michigan and it was just awesome - I had never experienced a fresh water lake like this that was so much like being at the ocean - incredible... we spent most the afternoon just on the beach - Sarah was looking through rocks and stuff and I was wading in the water - very good day. When we left the beach we headed up to Mount Baldy - which is where the dunes really are - but we didn't really explore this part. They say it is a living mountain that moves so much every year which is intriguing but you had to hike up this huge thing before you could see any of it and there were a lot of crying kids and the like - so we headed for our campground with the hot tub instead. The KOA was another hour or so up the road around the big lake and we were there before we knew it. We had stopped for beer and groceries and got settled in and commenced to have a great time. We did end up going to the hot tub - but it was no bueno - very bad hot tub. It was lukewarm at best, only about half full and there was a cigarette butt floating in it when we got there. There were some shady campers here too - your regular mustache man with the shades and hat pulled low - at the pool area checking out the chicks - pretty sketchy. So Sarah and I went and sat in the sauna since the hot tub sucked and it felt slimey. We did this for a bit after we realized that the sauna wasn't hot either and then went back to home base. We enjoyed our campsite as we relaxed with beers around sunset - overall this was a nice park minus the hot tub experience and Sarah wanted to talk to the manager about it all before we left tommorrow - we only had 3 hours to go to the DTE Energy Center for The Dead show tomm. (formerly known as the Pine Knob Music Theater) just another amphitheater bought out by the corporate man. I don't quite recall exactly what we did all night - I know it rained some and we had a busy family as neighbors on one side - but we had the kitty out on her elastic leash and enjoyed the night to ourselves. Tommorrow was a quick drive across Michigan to the northwest suburb area of Detroit - to Clarkston.
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