Day 4, Michigan shore-to-shore

 Lowell and Tom crossing the creek just outside of South Branch Camp

 Bobe on the Luzerne bridge.

 Lady drinking in between the Luzerne bridges.

 Lowell,  MaryEllen and Tom.

 Here, once again is me trying to take MaryEllen and my picture while I am holding it, not easy I say.

 Bobe and The Tramp

 Kim and Morgan riding around Luzerne camp

 MaryEllen, Lowell, and Bob

 Lori and Gale

McKinley Camp.  Land of many gnats.  Not sure why this camp and the trail leaving there is so knatty but holy smokes, it is bad.  Not sure how many I ate that day by accident but you don't want to ride along with your mouth hanging open.  One even went up my nose, eekkk.  We rode with Mary Ellen today and she was all grins with her BlackJack back on the trail.  She left Bob in the next camp in the good hands of all the other trail riders.  Today was maybe the first day she was apart from him for very long since he came home from the hospital.  We had a nice ride into Luzerne.  We lunched with THE MEN at John's old lunch spot at Evans Road/Zimowski Road intersection.  Then off down the 5 miles of pavement we went towards the famous Luzerne bridges.  When we are in camp our horses drink about 15 gallons of water each day, not including the gallons they drink on the trail.  They probably easily double it on the trail drinking out of lakes, streams and muddy hoof prints, they aren't fussy.  Can you imagine drinking 30 gallons of water every day.   After we got in camp today, we had a small workbee at the first water crossing towards the next camp.  25 adults and one Morgan went to shovel about 10 yards of gravel into the openings.  It felt about 90 degrees out but we were done in 45 minutes and got a free bus ride back to camp.  Had dinner that night all of us huddled under the awning in a small rain storm, Lowell's wife Joan made goulash and we enjoyed that together.  Thank you Joan for a yummy supper!  After supper and the meeting we dog walked around camp and landed at Lori and Gale's for some Lowell a Chico music and got to hear my song again.