Yesterday we left at about 11:00am and drove about 3 hours to reach Duluth on the shore of Lake Superior. We actually went a bit farther, crossing a bridge to a little peninsula of Wisconsin where we are now at a Walmart in Superior, WI.

After we arrived, we jumped in the  Jeep, and headed back to Duluth to check out the Duluth Trading Company factory store. Unfortunately, we were very disappointed. The store is not very big, is located in a somewhat run-down urban area with limited parking, and was poorly lit and dingy inside. We saw all of their well-advertised products, but we also saw a lot of common merchandise of the quality you'd see at Walmart. Sadly, even the common merchandise was priced at their premium levels and everything is made in Vietnam, Thailand or China. This is not what I expected from  a proud mid-western company like DTC. I'll gladly pay a premium for their unique quality product lines, but the other stuff demeans the whole brand. I gave my little sermon to the staff and we left, very unfulfilled.

On the way back, we stopped at an Applebee's for dinner, then back to the MH. Mysteriously, the satellite couldn't get a satellite lock, so we watched local TV from the rooftop TV antenna. Strangely, this morning when I tried the satellite, it had no trouble getting a lock.

Today's itinerary isn't set yet, but we're generally headed to the Mackinac bridge across the Straits of Mackinac which seperates Lake Huron from Lake Michigan.