Travel Day Today

Yesterday was a laundry day for us.  When we were out to dinner after the Edison Museum visit, I asked our waiter if he knew of any Laundromats close by, and he said that there was a Carwash, Pet wash, Dry cleaners, Laundromat, all next to each other.  We drove down the street to the combo-wash strip mall and I stayed in the van and Anne-Marie took a quick look, and said it would work for us. 

When I walked into this Laundromat yesterday, I just said “Wow” This is the brightest, cleanest, coolest,and newest Laundry that I have seen.  Only in Hood River, Oregon have we found such a clean Laundromat. 

As we travel, we need to find somewhere to do laundry about every three weeks.  When we are visiting family members, Anne-Marie likes to use their washer/dryer, but on the road we use public Laundromats.  Anne-Marie prefers front loaders, and only a few RV Parks have front loading washers, so we look for places like this.  This place is operated by pre-pay cards, you put your credit or debt card in the laundry card machine and choose the amount of money to transfer to a laundry card, then the laundry card can be used in any machine, including the vending machines.  An easy coinless system, but they have no provision for refunding money that is left over on the card.  We ended up finishing our laundry, and going straight to the trailer and gathering the bathroom rugs up, and right back to the Laundromat, and Anne-Marie tried to use up the last few dollars on the laundry card, but we still had a couple of dollars on the card.  Anne-Marie did a quick walkthrough and found someone who would appreciate the card, and gave it to them.

Travel day today.  We have been in Sandusky, Ohio for two weeks, and we have toured hard and fast, and there is still more to see and do, but we need to start moving towards the North West States.  We have more family to see before we head south to Arizona for the winter.  Today we are pulling the trailer to Valley Plaza Resort RV Park, located close to Midland and Bay City, Michigan.  We will tour this area for a few days till after the Labor Day Weekend, and then we will move further north.  During the big holiday weekends, we like to find a nice RV Park, reserve a space for the weekend, and be tourists.  Some times all of the spaces get reserved for big weekends, or big events, like fairs, or shows, and we have to drive a little further to find an open park.

We have seen Lake Superior and done some boat rides out of Munising, Michigan, but I would like to see more of the lake, maybe even traveling as far west as Duluth, Minnesota.