{"id":2737,"date":"2020-09-13T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T14:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:54","slug":"point-beach-camping-following-by-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=2737","title":{"rendered":"Point Beach camping, following by Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Point Beach State Campground, Walls, Goodes, Howards, with guest appearance by Madeline.\u00a0 Nice area, we&#8217;d go back there again.\u00a0 Got there in sunny conditions, but that didn&#8217;t last. Hiked the first day, clouds set in.\u00a0 Rain in the forecast.\u00a0 Goodes put out a feed for the crew 1st night.<\/p>\n<p>Made it thru the 1st night with no rain.\u00a0 Squeezed in a bike ride into Two Rivers the next morning.\u00a0 Then the rain hit.\u00a0 It rained for the next 30 hours, easily.\u00a0 2nd night Walls put on a feed under the group shelter, which was nearby.\u00a0 We took the solo stove down there, a few lights. Windy, cold, Bruno Mars on the sound system.<\/p>\n<p>3rd night, cold, windy, rain. Howards were on deck for dinner, we all folded and ate inside their fortunately large camper.<\/p>\n<p>Goodes departed for Michigan after that, the others went to Potawatomi State Park, where I gather it rained more on them.<\/p>\n<p>Petoskey State park first. One good weather day, biking, beaching. After than, cold and rainy.\u00a0 We hit town, got lucky at the food truck court with associated bar, watched the US Open Women&#8217;s final on the big screen, drank beer.<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping Bear, DH Day rustic campground next.\u00a0 No shower house here!\u00a0 Pit toilets, showering in the camper. Weather improved. Saffels are practically living there, we hooked up with them.\u00a0 They leave their camper there, go back and forth to their house.\u00a0 Got a few rides in on the Heritage trail.\u00a0 Got one pickleball game in at the courts in Arbor Glen.\u00a0 Moved the last night to extend our stay.<\/p>\n<p>Drove home thru Chicago since we were running out of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2020\/09Point-Michigan\/n-Fd82wV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photos and videos can be seen here.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 L<span class=\"\">ink 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point Beach State Campground, Walls, Goodes, Howards, with guest appearance by Madeline.\u00a0 Nice area, we&#8217;d go back there again.\u00a0 Got there in sunny conditions, but that didn&#8217;t last. Hiked the first day, clouds set in.\u00a0 Rain in the forecast.\u00a0 Goodes put out a feed for the crew 1st night. 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