We intended to leave Cheboygan, MI early (7:00 AM); got all set and ready to eat breakfast at the hotel.  Opened the door–rain.  Nuts.  Ate breakfast leisurely; then went back to the room to wait.  I finished a statistics project while Andy started a new book.  Got the work finished for one of my doctoral students just as it quit raining.  All that got wet were our feet as we made it up to the bridge and across.  Fun running on a wet metal grate above the Mackinaw Straits!  Sunny in the Upper Peninsula.

This was a long 450-mile day all the way to Duluth–the new home of my niece, Heidi.  We arrived safely at about 7:00 PM. And had a great time.  Their house is HUGE (Trump speak)–5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths without the two bedrooms and bath finished yet in the basement.  Ten foot ceilings throughout.  Andy had his own room and bath.  I got to sleep with my wife, Lil, who is up there for 3 weeks.

Heidi is the cute mother of 5 boys talking with her hands.  Lil  on the left; Shane, Heidi’s husband, and Andy on the couch.

Heidi made pancakes in the morning:

Here’s the Andy photo for this day:

We could not resist this PutPut course:

Last time it was close; this time Andy beat me soundly (lots of luck, I guess). Made it to Antiga, WI before we stopped for the night.