Starting
Tripometer Reading: 000.0
Ending
Tripometer Reading: 279.3
Lighthouses Viewed: 4
Today was a GREAT DAY to start our week-long vacation. The only problem was the rain ... and there was a LOT OF IT!! This first picture is perfect proof of that (I promise there is a lighthouse out there behind that blanket of rain)!!
I took that picture in the middle of a monsoon (just ask Dannie). I stepped out, got soaking wet, and within two minutes the umbrella was destroyed!! Not just inverted, but literally cut in half. Here, see for yourself. What's even funnier is that five minutes later, the rained stopped, and I was able to take a perfect picture!!
Well, my favorite lighthouse for the 1st day would have to be the Grand Haven Lighthouses. Luckily the rain cleared up before we arrived. The two lights are connected to each other, and to the shore, by a long catwalk. The larger light is a 51-foot steel sided near-cylindrical tower that has been painted fire engine red. Its companion light is a square building, also painted red, and houses not only a light, but a fog horn to assist mariners who are in the vicinity.
Tonight we're in Muskegon, and tomorrow we continue heading north to Traverse City stopping at numerous lights along the way. When I get back, be sure to ask me about the Tornado Warning, and the work-from-home meteorologist and his dogs (a blog just can't do the story justice)!!!
2 comments:
Very cool. Sorry about your umbrella. At least you are seeing them in the adverse conditions that many lighthouses were created to be seen in... though they don't really have the good lights any more. :(
That's how the rain is there. Rain for a quick minute, at the most an hour, then everything clears and the ground dries up. It's crazy!
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