Our Travel Plans NEWLY REVISED!

Read Zookeeper's blog to find out her feelings about the upcoming trip changes. Here's an article about what I'm talking about.


TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Hundreds of pounds of household garbage has washed onto Lake Michigan shores in the past couple of days, leading to an investigation by the Coast Guard and the temporary closure of a public beach. Trash that apparently came ashore overnight Sunday was strewn along a 10-mile stretch in Mason and Manistee counties in Michigan's northwestern Lower Peninsula. Junk piles up to 8 inches high were reported at a beach in the city of Manistee.
Garbage also washed onto private beaches Tuesday in Holland, more than 100 miles south of Manistee. It was not immediately clear whether the two were related, Lt. Kristie Cabanting, a Coast Guard spokeswoman in Milwaukee. A helicopter was undertaking flights to try determining where the garbage came from, she said.


I was still ok about going up (kind of), but Steph is very much grossed out about this, especially the whole syringe in the sand idea. So we're instead heading to Putinbay, Ohio. I'll post later. Now I'm off to the Microbrew Fest!