Our RV park in the area was in Mackinaw City, and we enjoyed exploring it as well. We had a Yankee RV Tours dinner at Mackinaw Pastie and Cookie Company. Pasties (pronounced with a short a sound as in past) are a regional food that miners took with them for lunch – primarily meat and potatoes enclosed in pastry, easily eaten like a sandwich. Interesting to try but a bit bland.
We bicycled from our RV park into Mackinaw City on the trail across the road from the park and then continued our ride along the lake to Michilimackinac State Park. It was pleasant to sit by the lake and enjoy the view of the Mackinac Bridge, the Mighty Mac, and boats going by.
We ate our picnic lunch at the park and then biked to Darrow’s Restaurant for dessert of Dutch apple pie and strawberry rhubarb pie – both delicious. Our next stop was the Mackinaw Bridge Museum. It was begun by an individual on the second floor of his pizza restaurant and was subsequently destroyed in a fire. But he rebuilt the restaurant and re-opened the museum with items donated by people throughout the area. The videos of the history of the bridge, including one which aired on PBS, are quite interesting as well as a number of artifacts and photographs. We met up with several other tour members at the museum.
After exploring the shopping area and enjoying the beautiful flowers all over town, we bicycled back to the RV park.
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