2026 Roadtrip: Seattle to Georgia, Canada and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

  • Upper Peninsula Part 1: St. Ignace, MI

    Upper Peninsula Stop 1 – St. Ignus, MI The nearly five-mile long Mackinac Bridge over Mackinac Straits, known as “The Mighty Mac”, joins the Upper Peninsula to lower Michigan. It also marks the separation between Lake Michigan and Luke Huron. It turns out that Lake Superior is just 90 miles away by water, on the…

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  • Bay City, MI

    From Toronto, we drove to Michigan on the way to the Upper Peninsula. Angie found a campground on the shore of Lake Huron near Bay City, MI. The Bay City Rollers, a Scottish pop band from the 70s, got their name from this town. Originally called “The Rollers”, they wanted to enhance the name. They…

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  • Toronto

    We camped at a Provincial park called Bronte Creek between the Toronto suburbs of Oakville and Burlington. The location was very convenient. We both got haircuts. Then we took Charlie to a quiet beach on Lake Ontario. It was in an upscale neighborhood with easy parking in a cul-de-sac within 50 yards of a shoreline…

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We are on the road again for an epic trip east from Seattle, as far south as Savannah and as far north as Nova Scotia.