We bid a sad farewell to Danny and our amazing time up north. 5 hours later, with a stop in Midland, we arrived in Port Huron. According to what I read online, population is 31,000 or so and unemployment rate 18%. We are spending the night in an okay motel with a deserted mall across the street.
I swam in their pool while Skip watched the U Washington - USC football game. UW is unrated and USC is/was #3 in the nation and WE WON. Skip is very happy and we went out to dinner to celebrate. We could find nothing in the area, so settled on Billy Boy's Family Diner right next door. No liquor license, but good food. I even dared order broiled whitefish and, though it was frozen, it was fresh and tasty. For a total of 20$ including tax we got hot rolls, salad, main entree, potato or rice, vegetables and dessert. I blurted out to our server, "This is an amazing find in the middle of nowhere." The stuff you can't retract. Maybe that "Tacky Toni" nickname I once had is still true. Anyhow, I meant that nothing was in the vicinity...you believe me, right?
The gas station restroom poster photo is to show how multi ethnic Midland MI has become. No photo with Danny (farewell) did not come out.
On to Canada in the morning.
Toni,
ReplyDeletevery funny...many people think Seattle is the middle of NOWHERE :>
I do remember thinking that about Seattle when we moved from NYC in 1970. Wm Buckley came to debate a local prof and sniffed that this was "the hinterlands" or was it "the provinces"?
ReplyDeleteNobody laughed at the right places in movies, Kenneth couldn't find a decent bagel, our prime resume point was being from NYC...
how times have changed, well at least to us Seattleites.