2. Port Huron is a really nice town - they have a lovely riverfront, and it's fun to look across to Canada. The Blue Water Bridge is huge. When we were there, the traffic entering the US was extremely slow and backed up.
3. A lot of the riverfront area is devoted to Thomas Edison, who spent part of his boyhood in Port Huron. There's a museum, statues, streets named after him, etc.
4. The world's fist International Railroad Tunnel connects Sarnia and Port Huron. Who knew?
5. Comfort Inn uses new, soft, luxurious pillows - 4 on each bed! I want to get some so I will also have a luxurious bed!
6. We saw funny street names in Port Huron - my favorite was Puttygut Street. Rattle Run is a good one too.
7. Free Wi-Fi doesn't always mean that you'll get a connection.
8. Croswell has a suspension footbridge - the longest in the US. There's a sign over it that says "Be Kind to Your Mother-In-Law". I think I'll send a picture of it to Chip! ;)
9. We saw an Asian couple at a rest area picnic table - they were cooking noodles on a camp stove. They never sat down, they never spoke to each other, and they ate their noodles with chopsticks from small yellow bowls - with their backs to each other!
10. If you order a hot turkey sandwich for lunch, tell them to go easy on the gravy!!!
11. The young desk clerk at the motel does not always know the best place for dinner.
12. Our new Garmin GPS is great for navigating in strange territory - nice complete maps and good directions. It helps the driver if the navigator reads what's coming up next, since it's obviously hard to drive and read the GPS at the same time!
13. It's still possible to get lost.
14. Long freight trains should not come to a halt in the center of town (Bay City).
15. A bee's nest can ruin a geocache search.
Dick's logs from 2 days of geocaching in the Thumb:
Didn 9/26/2007 You couldn't find WTA Hoo Goes There? (Traditional Cache)
Add us to the list of those who went to the tree with the hollow by the boundary fence and came up short.
Found it 9/26/2007 You found Capac Rest Area - 69W (Traditional Cache)
I turned the hunt for this cache into an adventure and one of my personal Geocaching triumphs. We are on a quest to find caches in each of Michigan’s 83 counties. A google map search spotted this one just across the county line into St Clair County. Due to a number of circumstances, I loaded the coordinates by hand. In the process I transposed a couple of numbers thus placing me 175 feet off. A glance at the bushwhacking involved determined that this was to be a solo push. Ironically, my cords put me within 10 feet of a good, although empty, hiding spot. After expanding the search out to 60 feet, I thought about where I would logically locate the hide and, eventually, voila!
I traded sigs and launched our coin “St Clair County” which commemorates our 50th wedding anniversary. Thanks for the fun.
Found it 9/26/2007 You found Prairies and Ponds at Oakwood (Traditional Cache)
This was a pretty quick find but you may want to reconsider the ratings. A wrong turn at either of the two forks will easily double the distance traveled and the last 50 feet is certainly not wheelchair accessible. Folks with disabilities will find this cache quite challenging for a 1/1. Took the TB and left a matchbox type car. Thanks for showing us this interesting park.
Didn 9/26/2007 You couldn't find Don't Call Me Bradley (Traditional Cache)
This was a defeat for us. Bummer! Don't know if we'll get back this way again soon.
Write note 9/26/2007 You posted a note for Quincy Mine Number 5 (Traditional Cache)
We bought a can of spray and hit the bees with it but it didn't seem to faze them so we didn't hunt the area. Somebody should do it at night or dawn.
Found it 9/26/2007 You found Flint River No. 1 (Traditional Cache)
We are on a quest to fill in our map of counties in which we have found caches. In each new (to us) county, we are selecting a cache in which to launch one of our coins which we designed to commemorate our 50th wedding anniversary. We placed our coin Lapeer County in this cache today. Thanks for providing us with a suitable place.
Found it 9/26/2007 You found Pins and Keyrings (Traditional Cache)
This cache is in an interesting park. We've never seen one with the barbed wire on the top of the chain link fence was angled to keep the inmates in. Looks like it would be a busy place in the summer. Found the cache but could not sign the soaked log book. The contents have become geojunk so we didn't add to the mess. The owner, out of consideration for his fellow cachers, should arrange for a local cacher to provide maintenance on it.
Found it 9/27/2007 You found Death or Taxes - RDL (Traditional Cache)
We were looking for a place to launch our Sanilac County coin but it's too small. We took some beads and left a National Lakeshore token. Thanks for the fun
Found it 9/27/2007 You found Welcome to Bad Axe (Traditional Cache)
Quick grab, nice container. Left a keychain. Thanks for the hunt.
Found it 9/27/2007 You found Yo Quiero Pollo Bell (Traditional Cache)
Quick grab on our way to the tip of the Thumb. We are looking for a spot to launch our Huron County coin but this guy is just too small so we just left our mini sig card. Thanks for the laugh.
Found it 9/27/2007 You found Park and Grab (Traditional Cache)
We are trying to paint the map of Michigan which shows the counties in which we have found caches a solid red. In conjunction with this quest, we are naming and launching one of our 50th Anniversary Commemorative Geocoins after each new county we add. We have never cached in the Thumb before. In fact, before this trip, we have never visited Huron County. After finding the cache, we signed the log, left our coin and a glass lady bug. Thanks for providing us with a spot to leave our Huron County coin.
Found it 9/27/2007 You found Petroglyph Cache (Traditional Cache)
After discovering the web site “It’s not about the Numbers” we set out on a quest to paint our Michigan map red. In conjunction with finding a cache in each county we have missed in the past, we are naming and launching one of our commemorative 50th Wedding Anniversary Geocoins in each. We spotted this cache and decided that a coin would probably fit in it and the unique area would be special. We are sorry that the protective structures are closed but it was an enjoyable walk back to the cache. We removed some geojunk and left our coin. Thanks for a great spot for the launch of our Sanilac County coin.
I traded sigs and launched our coin “St Clair County” which commemorates our 50th wedding anniversary. Thanks for the fun.
9/27/2007 You found Cedar Point (Traditional Cache)
On a drive down the coast we over thought this one and tried to make something out of the name. Soon corrected our mistake and scored the find. Signed the log and left our mini sig. TFTC
Found it 9/27/2007 You found TWT Series - Jenks Park (Traditional Cache)
Great little park. It was brisk today with a temp of 62 and a stiff wind off the lake. We traded a geopin for a pen. Thanks for a cache break on our drive along the coast.
Found it 9/27/2007 You found ALWAYS In Caro (Traditional Cache)
Thanks for the smilie. This was our first Tuscola County find.
Found it 9/27/2007 You found A Haiku for You (Traditional Cache)
We are trying to paint the map of Michigan which shows the counties in which we have found caches a solid red. In conjunction with this quest, we are naming and launching one of our 50th Anniversary Commemorative Geocoins after each new county we add. The poet on the team spotted this cache and decided it would be perfect place for our Tuscola County coin to begin its journey.
To celebrate our
Fiftieth Annivers'ry
We leave you this coin
There were only two TB's in the cache which we took, we left a deck of cards, a Matchbox car and of course our Tuscola County coin.
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