Day 29 - Between Oshkosh and Green Bay Wi to Taqhamenon Falls, MI

We left the Walmart parking lot and headed north, destination T. Falls State Park. A friend of Jan and John’s had recommended the park to them, and it sounded good to us too, so away we went.

We received a text message from Martin, kicking himself for not asking us to get him a western shirt while we were in cowboy country. He is planning a western themed service on Sunday and thought the shirt would be appropriate. We’re sorry he didn’t ask us yesterday too - Wall Drug had a whole western shop where we could have easily picked one up. But now we had a challenge - got to find a shirt! But this is Green Bay, Wisconsin - west, but not west enough!

T.Falls State Park is at the very tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (or U.P. as they refer to it there, right on the shores of Lake Superior. The falls are within the park, and we hope we will get to see them. The U.P. is an outdoorsman’s paradise, with snowmobile and ATV trails plus hunting and fishing. Our route took us along the shores of Lake Michigan, where we at first saw some very nice large homes, which the further we went turned more into cottages and small year-round homes in small villages. If you don’t like winter, the U.P. would not be the place for you! The trees are already turning, so winter comes early. ‘Yoopers’ have to be tough, and also self-sufficient - no shopping malls up here!

Finally we arrived at the park, and after several miles eventually came to the campground. The facilities are typical State park, rustic but very adequate. We found 2 sites side by side, set up camp, and then hopped into John and Jan’s jeep to drive to the falls.

There are actually 5 ‘lower’ waterfalls, 3 visible from a walkway, the others only by boat (which very conveniently we could rent, but didn’t). We then drove to where we could take a trail to see the upper falls - very impressive. At the end of the trail was a set of 94 steps that we could take to see the bottom of the waterfall - the guys declined, but Jan and I wanted to take more pictures, so we got a bit of a work-out going down and back up.

Then back to the campsite where we shared dinner in our trailer - Jan cooked the corn and brought salad, Mike and John grilled burgers, I made strawberry shortcake - we might be camping, but we’re not roughing it! This is our last evening together - we have all enjoyed each other’s company.