September 10, 2017
Celebrating the day!
Silver City, Michigan
Robin and I celebrated our 34th anniversary today
by doing what we love—exploring new places and having adventures. We left Munising for Silver City, but not
before we backtracked a bit to see Alger Falls—a gently gushing waterfall right
on the side of the highway. I love the
sound of falling water. What a treasure,
and we didn’t have to walk a mile or two over a rutted trail to see it.
After that, we headed to the Navigator restaurant in town for breakfast, overlooking the lake. Up here, almost everything overlooks the lake. In fact, we picked our route because it hugs the lake.
Even if our road veers away from it, it shows up unexpectedly. We enjoyed some vivid red trees poking above and out of the forest as we rode along, and we had a little side excursion up the Keweenaw Peninsula.
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| Flowers along the street in Christmas, MI |
After that, we headed to the Navigator restaurant in town for breakfast, overlooking the lake. Up here, almost everything overlooks the lake. In fact, we picked our route because it hugs the lake.
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| A last look at Pictured Rocks beyond Grand Island |
Even if our road veers away from it, it shows up unexpectedly. We enjoyed some vivid red trees poking above and out of the forest as we rode along, and we had a little side excursion up the Keweenaw Peninsula.
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| Color! |
We had found Silver City online—it had a hotel, it was on
the way to our next destination, and we liked the name. When we googled the area for hotels, many
popped up. What we didn’t realize is
that most were within a 50-mile radius of Silver City. When we arrived in Silver City, we discovered
that there was neither a city nor any silver!
It was a nice chain hotel with kind of a lake view and a restaurant on
the premises—the only restaurant anywhere within miles. In fact, the only other retail business was a
Wilderness Gift Shop across the street.
We had been chasing a “lake sunset,” one where the orange
disk sinks into the horizon, for several days and at last had our opportunity,
except that Silver City is dominated by the Porcupine Mountain Wilderness area
just to the west of “town.” As the light
faded, we raced back east to escape the mountain’s shadow. Most of this part of
the Lake Superior shoreline is privately held and forested, so getting access
proved an added difficulty, but eventually, just in time, we found a small park
with a beach! We couldn’t escape the cloud bank in the west, but still saw a
nice sunset over the lake.
We had our anniversary dinner right there in Silver City at Porky’s
Pub & Grub, named for the Porcupine Mountains. Nothing fancy but we were there and together
and enjoying our adventure. Robin had Walleye for the first time (imported from
Canada because it’s illegal to sell “game fish” from Michigan). He says they are
in the James River at home in Richmond, and he’s going fishing when we get
back! Oh, boy!
408 months of blissful togetherness and adventuring, as Kerry
says, “exchanging information.”
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