We had a good start today, left home around 8:00 AM and by sunset we were about 100 miles north of Detroit. We took the Pa. Turnike through a number of tunnels to the end, and connected to the Ohio Turnpike, passed Cleveland, Toledo and finished the day in Bay City, Michigan.
Bay City is on the eastern side of the state at the south end of what the locals call the Sunrise Coast, on the western shore of Lake Huron. We're about 150 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge which crosses over to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Tomorrow we'll take the coast road along the lake up to the bridge, and from there we'll head west again on the southern side of Lake Superior and see how far we get.
There wasn't a lot of scenery today, but it was a nice drive on the Pa. Turnpike. A road sign at the end called it the first super highway in the country. In Ohio and Michigan the big trucks seemed to own the roads. We passed a few Fed Ex triple trailers that looked like trains on rubber wheels; and I was nervous driving behind huge flatbeds hoping all the steel pipe was well tied down.
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