Getting repairs done in Elkhart, Sept 12-13, 2011

Well, our time in Copper Harbor, MI was cut short by a not cold Norcold.  Our frig died, red light on the recall sensor and the yellow stray of ammonia smelling stuff at the back of the unit.  So we took off, after icing down what we could, on Sat and Sun (10th and 11th) driving 643 miles to Elkhart IN, the RV mecca of America. 

If you want more detail of our wonderful time in Copper Harbor, check our Bob’s blog.  He also talks more about our very timely Norcold frig replaced cooling unit.  We sure lucked out with this one.

We are currently parked at Duncan RV in Elkhart getting some items taken care of:  slide weather stripping replaced, slide topper repaired, front door glitch with opening fixed, slide adjusted, MCD blind adjustment, and generator cover adjusted.

After running  some errands this morning and early afternoon, we headed back to the lounge at Duncan RV to wait until our RV was ready.  Soon a lady came in and spoke to me, called me Linda, hummm, who does that.  Well it was a fellow blog reader Marie.  She and her husband were in the area getting some work done also and she tracked us down.

We had a great visit, left with plans to meet for breakfast on Thursday morning.  Gotta love the world of blogging.

Best of our stay in Houghton, MI Aug 26-Sept 4, 2011

We were fortunate to get reservations at the City of Houghton RV Park, then to top it all off, by moving a few spaces, were able to extend here over the holiday weekend.

This snow level pole shows at the top the level of snow during the winter of 1978-79 – 390.4”

The Eagle Harbor Lighthouse.

Experimenting with charcoal cooking, this split fryer was delicious.

The Copper Range Historical Museum in Chassell was quite interesting.  The volunteer was very enthusiastic making it was fun to listen to her tell about growing up in this town.

Below are many attempts to create a better egg beater, quite interesting.

 

This coat served his owner well, so many patches sewn on as there was no money to buy a replacement one.

 

 

 

 

 

A bill for an appendectomy done in 1937, 13 day hospital stay at $1.50/day!

Thursday, Sept 1st was moving day for us, Bob drove and I walked.  We moved from site 9 to site 4, and now we can stay here for the Labor Day weekend.

After getting set up, we headed off to tour the Quincy Mine.  The #2 shaft went down 9,260’, almost two miles.  The man car (on the right) carried 30 men to their work area for their 12 hour shift.  The water tank car (on the left) would be used to dewater the mine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another tidbit of info about a huge copper mass.

I did find the copper specimen I wanted!  It was on display at the Seaman Mineral Museum in Houghton.  Wonderful place.

On a drive we came upon this behemoth.  Notice the “No Trespassing” sign Bob has passed making a bee line to check out this dredger.  Usually he is more mindful of those signs.  He said he just wanted to touch it,

and he did.

We helped this young couple with two kids in the SUV, load back up some siding that had slid off the trailer.  They were very thankful, we just told them now they have a ‘great story’ to tell their friends.  We once had a tour guide in Europe, and that was his deal, if something doesn’t go as you hoped it would, it then makes a great story!

Do you believe the size of these fungi (the internet says “Both fungi and funguses can be used as the plural for fungus.”)  I have never seen anything like this before.

You can’t go to Gay Michigan and see this sign without the obligatory photo!

Tomorrow, Sept 5th, we are headed north to Copper Harbor’s Fort Wilkins SP.