{"id":2712,"date":"2019-09-15T15:33:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","slug":"michigan-camping-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=2712","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Camping 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drove the camper up the western edge of Michigan in early September.\u00a0 We hit a very cool, rainy stretch of weather.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t ride much.\u00a0 Too wet, too cold.\u00a0 Camped in Luddington, Sleeping Bear, and Petosky.\u00a0 Hooked up with the Stubers of Traverse City in Glen Arbor. We tried a group bike ride in gloomy conditions .\u00a0 Made it out about four miles when the threat of impending rain made us hightail it back to the cars.\u00a0 Good call, it started to rain within 30 seconds of getting back.\u00a0 We strolled down to Art&#8217;s Tavern for lunch.\u00a0 Rain came down in sheets for an hour straight.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast was grim enough that we all just drove all the way back to Traverse City, where we hung out dry and warm for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Bob came up to Petosky for a ride one day.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the pics from the first gallery are in and around Luddington State Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2019\/Michigan\/Luddington\/n-x2D8sQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photos (and videos) can be seen HERE.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<span class=\"\">This link should<\/span>\u00a0bring you to a \u201clightbox\u201d view of all the photos in a gallery.\u00a0Clicking on any thumbnail gets you a larger single view. \u00a0You can then arrow\u00a0left and right, or use the on-screen arrows to go left and right.<\/p>\n<p>Hit &lt;esc&gt; to go back to the lightbox view at any time.\u00a0 Close the tab when you&#8217;re done viewing, and you&#8217;re back to this page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Phase two of this trip was camping in Porcupines Mountains, in the UP.\u00a0 We met up with Howards and Walls, camped in the only RV site in the entire park.\u00a0 We treated ourselves to gourmet dinners 3 nights, did two spectacular hikes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2019\/Michigan\/Porkies\/n-bQvLCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two videos, one of camp live, the other a compendium of waterfall shots. Lots and lots of waterfalls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2019\/Michigan\/Videos\/n-rwgDTL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drove the camper up the western edge of Michigan in early September.\u00a0 We hit a very cool, rainy stretch of weather.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t ride much.\u00a0 Too wet, too cold.\u00a0 Camped in Luddington, Sleeping Bear, and Petosky.\u00a0 Hooked up with the Stubers of Traverse City in Glen Arbor. We tried a group bike ride in gloomy conditions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=2712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michigan Camping 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-photo","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}