DAY 5 July 13 (Melody's birthday)

We enjoyed a different kind of day today.  Mackinac Island does not allow cars even for residents and it seems they don't allow e-bikes with a throttle even the class 2 bikes which we have.  So we ferried over to the island at 9:30 without our bikes.  Very disappointing.  The irony is that there are thousands of bikes on the island .  They're just everywhere and no one locks them up.  It's hard to walk, there are so many bikes and inexperienced riders.  Little kids and grandmothers wobbling down the street.  We saw 2 accidents both old ladies.  Made me nervous.  We rented step thru cruisers for 16$/hour so we could ride the 9 mile  perimeter, the last 3 photos.  The ride was spectacular as you can see.  My camera didn't do it justice.

We also paid 15$ each to tour the fort and it was actually worth it, a very impressive fort and display.  Lots of pictures and info on all the buildings.  It was surprisingly interesting.  It took a while because Dennis likes to read everything but it was worth it.  We had lunch at the fort tearoom (I'm not kidding) with the view that you see in the top photos.  A great place to have lunch.  Our tickets also got us into 2 old houses showing how people lived in the 1800s.  Again lots of info pictures to read, but very well done.  

We bought our t-shirts, visited the art museum (just local art) had a fantastic ice cream cone and came back earlier than planned on the 4:30 ferry.  Dennis is taking a 15 minute nap before dinner.

Tomorrow we have a long drive 250 miles to Green Bay, Wisconsin.