Blogs from Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, United States, North America

Day 13 – July 9th We awoke to fog as heavy as or perhaps heavier than we had in Duluth; we couldn’t see much out our hotel window. We thought the weather might cause us to change our plans, but we decided to give it a shot. After a breakfast of self-made waffles in the hotel’s breakfast room we fired up the faithful Caravan and headed south on I-75 for about 50 miles through national, state, and privately owned forests and marshlands. In about an hour we reached our destination, St. Ignace, MI. St. Ignace is a town of about 2,400 people and the county seat of Mackinac County. It also hosts the northern terminus of the Mackinac Bridge. This bridge is worthy of so many superlatives that I can’t lis... read more

We visited Sault Ste. Marie and the Soo Locks on a Fourth of July weekend in 2007. The bonus was the annual Fourth of July parade. Actually this spur of the moment surprise happened to us again over Labor Day weekend. While driving back from Traverse City, Michigan we were detoured off the main road in a small town due to a parade. Rather than continue, we took advantage, removed our chairs, and enjoyed an impromptu, at least for us, parade. What fun! Well, back to the Soo Locks. The Soo Locks tours depart from two docks that are very close to each other. There are multiple departure times that easily accommodate everyone’s schedule. Since it was July, we dressed for summer. Upon arriving, however, everyone had jackets and seemed dressed for fall. Somehow we had ... read more