A Cold Day in Hell

...Michigan, that is. Today we drove from Maumee, OH (yes, we HAD to stay in Ohio again!) to Hell, MI and then to Elkhart, IN.

Hell is three buildings and 200 people big. There's a post office/deli and an ice cream shop/halloween store and an inn. We went to the first two and had tasty ice cream and sent some mail. I'd like to say it was more interesting than it was. I mean it was fun for a while to use so many references to "Hell," but after a while the novelty wore off and it was just old. We took some pictures though. Enjoy.

Me and my ice cream from Hell

Jim, Bigfoot from Hell

In all seriousness, though, it was really a pretty part of Michigan. Everything was really green and there were trees and grass everywhere we looked. I guess they've been having a lot of rain in the area and there are a lot of small lakes, one of which flooded, closing one of the main bridges, so you had to go all the way around the lake. We decided to take another road we saw on the GPS. This was it...

And here's the official welcome sign.

Oh, and this amused us. Some of the states where we had no interest in visiting anything in particular, we just sort of drove through a corner. Well, Kentucky made us laugh. Here's our trip into and out of Kentucky (on our way out).

"2vi" and her directions to Kentucky

We drove in on one side of the bridge, made a left turn, and then another and drove out on the other side of the same bridge. It was interesting, though, cause one side of the bridge was blue and the other side was green....weird, huh?

Yesterday was uneventful. We drove for most of the day and landed in Maumee, OH in a Staybridge Suites right next to a mall. It wasn't a great one. There weren't a whole lot of stores, and no Macy's so I couldn't get a new compact (mine is getting low). But it did have a Red Robin and we had a gift card, so dinner was almost free.

The Staybridge had a laudry room that was free to guests. We just had to provide our own detergent. We got some of those cool sheets that have the detergent, fabric softener and anticling stuff all in one. You put it in the washer and then the dryer and you're done. It's good for our purposes, but we decided it was too expensive to use on a regular basis. We like them because they don't spill like powder or liquid soap would.

I've been having problems with my stomach the past...almost week now. Everything I eat seems to upset it. I've stopped eating fried food and made an attempt to eat more fruits and veggies. I also don't think I've been getting enough protein, so I'm working on that. Hopefully something works soon!

Tomorrow we're going to check out an Amish "downtown" area. Jim says they have some pretty cool stuff sometimes, so we're going to check it out. This is supposed to be the third largest Amish community in the country, so hopefully it'll be cool.

Anyway, time to go bully Jim into committing to a dang television show and stop surfing because he's driving me INSANE!!!