Depressing Drive South

With heavy hearts, we left the campground in Petoskey and headed south to Streetsboro, Ohio.  It's about 30 miles south of Cleveland.  I picked this last stop on the trip because it's near my friend Cori, who lives in Chagrin Falls.  The kids will like the Great Lakes Science Center and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I look forward to getting together with Cori and her family for dinner.

We have loved our time in northern Michigan, and today's drive will take us one campground away from home.

We took Michigan Route 131 South and made our way to I-75 south.  A bypass on Route 23 South avoided Detroit and took us past Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan.  We couldn't see the University or the football stadium from the road.  I can't say it was a very scenic drive, and the roads weren't in the best shape, but we didn't have much traffic.   It was a long driving day; we left the campground around 8:45 a.m. and got to Streetsboro around 4:30 p.m.

The Streetsboro-Cleveland KOA is a nice campground.  It's quiet, and has a fishing pond and a swimming lake.  Ruth spotted the owner's pet pig in the owner's yard - it's a cute little thing.  We won't spend much time here, since we'll spend all day tomorrow in Cleveland and then Chagrin Falls.

After driving all day, Jeff wanted to go out to eat.  We found a place nearby called The Brown Derby.  Everyone loved their loaded baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, chives and bacon.  We thought our steaks were okay, but not the best we've had this trip.  But all in all, it was a nice dinner out.

We ended the night with a movie.  I picked up "The Big Year" in a $5 bin at Walmart earlier in the trip, and we popped it into the dvd player.  I don't know if the movie got great reviews, but we liked it.  It's about three men who are into birding who try to find a record number of birds in a year, hence the phrase "the big year."

Ruth gave up halfway through to read a book she likes, called "The Doll People."  She finished the first  Harry Potter book earlier on the trip, and she's looking forward to reading the rest of them.

Before going to bed, I got a peed at the "Blue Moon."  It was so bright in the sky, that if I didn't have the room darkening shade on the window on my side of the motorhome, it seemed like there was a street light on near it.  It was a gorgeous moon.