A travel day. By 7:00 AM it’s in the mid 50’s with a promise of warmer temperatures later. We have a quiet morning, eat breakfast, walk the dogs, clean up, hook up the car and with instructions in hand head for the highway.
After 40 miles we reach I-75 and head north towards Detroit. This is supposed to be a fifty mile leg but with twenty miles to go we read a sign that says the freeway is closed at exit 47A. That’s our exit. The next sign says if we want to take the tunnel into Canada we need to exit towards Flint. Wanting to follow directions we take the next exit towards Flint. Eventually, with Tina reading the map, we decided to keep following the freeway signs. So when it says to get off and follow another Freeway towards Detroit, we do it.
By this time we’ve probably driven fifteen to twenty miles out of our way. So Tina says to get off at the next exit and it should put us on Michigan Street. If we follow Michigan Street we should go straight through the center of Detroit and right to the Windsor Tunnel. And she’s right. It’s slow, and right through downtown Detroit but we get right to the tunnel entrance. We pass through the tunnel with practically no traffic and get to (and through) Canadian customs with no problems. This puts us in the heart of downtown Windsor where we follow another construction detour before getting on our route out of town. 
We follow our map instructions and before you know it we’re off route with one more construction detour. This time we can’t locate the street we think we’re supposed to be on so we stop and call the park for directions. Turns out we’re only a few miles away. Back on the road we get to the park with no more problems, register and get set up for our three night stay. Once again I don’t have an internet connection that will hold for more than a minute before getting dropped so with laptop in hand I head over to the office where I can make sure I have directions to my Aunt Kay’s place. When I got back to the coach I called my Aunt Kay and we made plans for the evening. Turns out our RV Campground is only about five miles away so we made it over to her apartment in Tecumseh in less than ten minutes. We visited for several hours then had a delicious dinner. Aunt Kay had made a really good hunters stew with Ciabatta rolls followed by peaches with cookies and tea for desert. Yum! By 7:30 PM it was time to head back home so we made plans to get together again tomorrow morning and go for a drive.
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Distance for this leg (with detours), 140 miles. Total for the trip so far, 7,424 miles.
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