I’m just about wrapping up my tour of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
It’s ten hours, more or less, from Ann Arbor to Houghton. After sailing on Keweenaw Bay and Portage Lake (and visiting my sister-in-law) we drove three hours to Escanaba. The three days in the Escanaba marina were mostly taken up by finding places to sit out some spectacular thunderstorms, but we did get in one perfect day of sailing. Now we are back up to my sister-in law’s house. There is a chance we will launch somewhere else before we go, but I’m expecting the sailing part of our journey is at an end.
So I’m counting 26-30 hours with trailer in tow before we get back home.
While I was sitting here looking at maps, I realized that the Apostle Islands are only another three hours further away than I am right now. If only work wasn’t calling me back . . . .something to add to the bucket list.
But that would be 13 hours from home.
How far would you tow for the promise of good sailing? How far have you towed?
How far have you towed only to be thwarted by weather?
It’s ten hours, more or less, from Ann Arbor to Houghton. After sailing on Keweenaw Bay and Portage Lake (and visiting my sister-in-law) we drove three hours to Escanaba. The three days in the Escanaba marina were mostly taken up by finding places to sit out some spectacular thunderstorms, but we did get in one perfect day of sailing. Now we are back up to my sister-in law’s house. There is a chance we will launch somewhere else before we go, but I’m expecting the sailing part of our journey is at an end.
So I’m counting 26-30 hours with trailer in tow before we get back home.
While I was sitting here looking at maps, I realized that the Apostle Islands are only another three hours further away than I am right now. If only work wasn’t calling me back . . . .something to add to the bucket list.
But that would be 13 hours from home.
How far would you tow for the promise of good sailing? How far have you towed?
How far have you towed only to be thwarted by weather?