More gorgeous scenery between Manistique and Escanaba. Route 2 veers away from the water for a good while but it didn’t really matter. Still lots of trees and hills and curves to make the ride enjoyable. We made great time, really getting on it and taking no prisoners whenever a passing lane showed up. We rolled into Escanaba and I was laughing the whole time. Peter and I stopped at a light, and we decided that we wanted to get to downtown Escanaba and take a break near the water. He asked me if I knew how to get to downtown, and I said “I can find any downtown anywhere”. So he challenged me to “find that downtown” but I had no idea where it was. But as we kept getting closer, I started seeing all these billboards for some Swedish restaurant. The billboards all said “best food downtown” and after awhile one of them said “best food downtown, 4 more lights and turn left”. So at the next light, Peter and I stopped and I told him “3 more lights to downtown!” He didn’t believe me. At the next light, I said “two more”. And at the next one “one more”. He was just shaking his head, “whatever”. Then we get to the next light, and I just started laughing. Because right at the intersection on the left hand side is a huge sign spanning the whole road that says “Welcome to downtown Escanaba”. Peter is yelling “how did you know? how could you know? I want to know how you knew, there’s no way you could know” etc etc. LOL
So we turn left and motor through the main downtown drag for a couple of miles and right on the left is a nice big park right on the water. Sweet. We stopped and stretched, then walked down and took a break on one of the benches right on the water. Man, was it nice. The sun had come out (finally), the temp was up around 60-62, there was a little breeze, and it was quiet…there were only a couple people in the park. We took some pictures and I confessed to Peter how I knew where downtown Escanaba was and how I wasn’t psychic. LOL
We snapped a couple pics and got back on the road. We stopped just before leaving town at a big gas station and gassed up. We both bought tickets for the Mega Millions…it was up over $200 million and we were on our way out of MI so we figured “why not”. On to Menominee and lunch.
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