PN Hoeft State Park, Rogers City

Michigan State Parks are some of the best we've every seen. After driving a short 90 miles, we set up housekeeping on the Sunrise side of the state on the shore of Lake Huron, at Hoeft State Park. PN Hoeft was a banker, lumber baron, ship captain, mine owner. In 1922, he donated 300 acres for a park, and in 1938 the CCC built a fine stone picnic pavilion. It's big park, with 142 sites. Since it's after Labor Day, and mid-week, the place is almost deserted. The beach here is sugar sand, blindingly white, and the water is an improbably blue/green. Beautiful!

We pedaled our bicycles up the coast a little to see the Forty Mile Point Light, then drove down the coast to see the lights at Presque Isle. Michigan is serious about biking, we are to learn that there are paved bike trails everywhere. Something else Michiganders are serious about is sausage. The meat markets we've seen so far are from a distant time. Many different hand-made sausages, beautifully cut meats and a small army of men in white coats and hats behind the counter to cut something for me. We bought several different sausages from the meat market in Rogers City, pop: tiny. What a feast we had for dinner that night! Corn, peppers, sausages, all cooked on the grill.