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Drove to lake superior this week end in the upper peninsula to a town called grand marias not much there but a campground,some of the sites are buy the water my wife and I got one of the sites we set up camp Friday . Saturday  it rained all day, the weather gets got really bad at night in the pics you can see the leaf and debris was all over the back of the camper. At night the wind was blowing pretty hard and raining hard,we herd a noise from the door l though it was the wind ,it was not ,crazy it was a lady that was drunk and was sitting in the driver's seat my wife got up she was naked and had to bend over to open the door for her, should have locked the door this was 4 o'clock in the morning.it was one of those trips.

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We go there often. It is "Grand Marais", not "Grand Marias."  Easy for me to remember since it is also my last name that also gets spelled wrong a lot. "Big Swamp" in French.  We go there for a whitefish get-together every year and we own land not too far away in Paradise. When we go to Grand Marais, we often camp at Blind Sucker campground.  We do "photo-ops" by the sign every time we are there. I assume you camped at the Lake Superior campground.  Gets pretty crowded there - and as you mentioned . . windy.  Blind Sucker is just down the road and one of our favorite places. 

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We camp at woodland park in town I don't like going down the dirt road,the last time we went down the road l thought the camper was going to fall apart . Paradise is a great place we used to camp off of a two track .the spell check did not work for grand marais !

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1 hour ago, Up north mi said:

We camp at woodland park in town I don't like going down the dirt road,the last time we went down the road l thought the camper was going to fall apart . Paradise is a great place we used to camp off of a two track .the spell check did not work for grand marais !

That dirt road you speak of, with all the wash-boarding, is where the chimney broke off from the burner on my refrigerator on my Toyota Minicruiser.  NOT a great road for a Toyota RV and I know exactly what you mean.
I have a special attachment to Paradise.  Maybe because of the paradoxical name since it can be so miserable there.  Or maybe because I read a series of books based on a retired-cop-character and sidekick Indian that is focused there.  There is a nice rural state campground just outside of Paradise on the way to Whitefish Point and the roads are all good going there.

I know what you mean about spell-check.  It helps to make many of us not only get dumber, also looked dumber.  I waste a lot of time fixing my spell-check errors.
When I was a kid in school - my name often got spelled wrong so it became "Marias" and then got pronounced MARE-EE-behind,with an emphasis on the behind.     Quite different from the way it is supposed to sound - i.e. "MARE - AY" with the silent S.  In Quebec, it is spelled "DESMARAIS."

While in the general area - do you ever stop at Oswald's Bear Ranch?  He has quite a few Toyota RVs on site.  Kind of neat place.

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On 8/22/2016 at 7:01 AM, Up north mi said:

Drove to lake superior this week end in the upper peninsula to a town called grand marias not much there but a campground,some of the sites are buy the water my wife and I got one of the sites we set up camp Friday . Saturday  it rained all day, the weather gets got really bad at night in the pics you can see the leaf and debris was all over the back of the camper. At night the wind was blowing pretty hard and raining hard,we herd a noise from the door l though it was the wind ,it was not ,crazy it was a lady that was drunk and was sitting in the driver's seat my wife got up she was naked and had to bend over to open the door for her, should have locked the door this was 4 o'clock in the morning.it was one of those trips.

 

 

 

Wait you had a nake woman break into your camper and it was "one of those trips"? I need to get my rig up there and see whats happening. LOL.. With my luck my wife would accuse me of knowing her and shoot me.

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13 hours ago, jdemaris said:

We go there often. It is "Grand Marais", not "Grand Marias."  Easy for me to remember since it is also my last name that also gets spelled wrong a lot. "Big Swamp" in French.  We go there for a whitefish get-together every year and we own land not too far away in Paradise. When we go to Grand Marais, we often camp at Blind Sucker campground.  We do "photo-ops" by the sign every time we are there. I assume you camped at the Lake Superior campground.  Gets pretty crowded there - and as you mentioned . . windy.  Blind Sucker is just down the road and one of our favorite places. 

 

 

At last we got a picture of the renowned JD. You don't look so old to me. kinda look like my hunting buddy from Grawn.

good looking family too. nice weather in the picture. last time i was up there it rained like it was seatle.

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Yes, me and my "new" bride who I found a little over 20 years ago. She is 12 years younger then me and it all evens out since we all know how much mature women are compared to men.  Right?  I still have hair and it is not grey yet (unlike my wife) - so it provides me with the illusion of being younger. I think even my daughter is grey but she won't confess and colors it (I think).

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28 minutes ago, jdemaris said:

Yes, me and my "new" bride who I found a little over 20 years ago. She is 12 years younger then me and it all evens out since we all know how much mature women are compared to men.  Right?  I still have hair and it is not grey yet (unlike my wife) - so it provides me with the illusion of being younger. I think even my daughter is grey but she won't confess and colors it (I think).

Thats gotta be awesome still having hair color. Mine went white walled on the sides and is salt and pepper up top. My beard is almost white on me chin and salt pepper everywhere else at 42 years young.  Im mostly white hairs now. Someone told me i look older than Alex Jones even though he is 8 months older than I am. I must have bad genes to get these greys the way I do.

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My wife was naked,lucky for me she does not wearing clothes.she is younger  than me also buy 14 years.we are planing a trip for a week after labor day can't wait we will end up in Calumet .I think I have most of the bugs worked out of the mh it seems never ending.

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On 8/23/2016 at 6:02 PM, Up north mi said:

My wife was naked,lucky for me she does not wearing clothes.she is younger  than me also buy 14 years.we are planing a trip for a week after labor day can't wait we will end up in Calumet .I think I have most of the bugs worked out of the mh it seems never ending.

What is it with Michigan ladies and running around naked?    Some people bought 20 acres of woods next to my 40 acres (where we live most of the time).  We are one of the few that live here full-time. Most properties around here are hunting camps or summer-time four-wheeler camps.  I'm in Hawks near Rogers City, surrounded by woods and swamps.  Anyway - the land "next-door" got sold and I assumed some hunters got it.  One day, me and my little boy were walking through the woods, on OUR land - and there's a woman laying on a blanket - totally naked.  She saw me, threw a towel over herself and ran away.  Did NOT even stop to say "hello."  Ends up it was our new "neighbor" and I guess she did not know where the property lines are. That was a year ago and we've never seen anyone come back.  They had cut in a driveway and hauled in a camper-trailer and not it's all over-grown.  Maybe she thinks she has a pervert for a neighbor. Or thinks I'm some troll who lives in the woods and only comes out when there are naked ladies present?

I've got to spend a full day in your area next week.  That is, an entire day in Petoskey. My 80 year-old mother-in-law has to have some skin-cancer removed and it seems nobody where she lives in Alpena can do it.  So she has been referred to get it done in Petoskey.  You guys must be more civilized then we are here.  Last specialist I had to see was also in Petoskey.  McLaren Northern.

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There seems to alot more money on this side of the state.I am a carpenter and we have been  working in a place called Hearthside Grove in petoskey it is a luxury  motorcoach resort they don't  call the motorhomes,this place is crazy!lots start at 100 thousand dollars.one person has over one million dollars in his 1000 square foot bungalow  it has a slab  floor no basement or call crawl  space the have more money in the landscape than my house is worth.again crazy!,on top of that they maybe  stay a month or two.

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love that second pic of the "death star" coach. Wife and I always call those greyhound bus coaches death stars as they often have the huge radar dish cannons on the roof and have tractor beams.

Great looking resort. I should love to visit it in my sunrader and be run through for being riff raff there.

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