Special Mom’s blog

Today we leave for Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. This would finish our quest of visiting all the Great Lakes. Lake Erie, Ontario, Michigan and Huron have all been visited. The last in the list being Lake Superior which will be visited this time. The past week I have been buzzing around like a bee trying to collect things for my trip.

The 1400 mile round trip for a week takes us through 4 of the lakes and we pass three states and our final destination is in Canada. Our family has got used to road trips. We have made trips to Milwaukee, Dallas, Myrtle beach and Toronto just to name a few the past two years. We have checked in and checked out of multiple hotel rooms and sometimes 3 hotels rooms during one particular road trip. My special one is now so used to these trips that he expects one to happen every two months. I have picnic bags, toiletries bag, suitcases all the time ready. But this time, we have a thrown ourselves a challenge. We have booked ourselves a cabin instead of a hotel room in a campground. So we have a whole two bedroom house all to ourselves. This is going to surprise my special boy.

This week me and my boy visited multiple stores and picked up so many things from a list that I had made on my white board. We skipped going to his program and had fun doing this project. The last time we used our picnic bags were in November when we visited Harpers Ferry, but to my amazement I had enough of plates, spoons and napkins. We had to refill our toiletries bag and had to purchase new swim pants. I had to pack some groceries like rice and salt since I have a kitchen that I can cook. I do not use zip lock bags (trying to avoid plastic), but I had to purchase in different sizes to accommodate different dry items. The only problem every time we were at the store, he needed a Reese candy. But the upside he learnt to use the self checkout counter. These items look trivial but they are so expensive when you travel and you may not be even able to get them when you need it.

I have a lot of leftover painting projects and puzzle projects that are unfinished at home. With all the travel excitement, we just put those all aside and enjoyed our Walmart and Target trips.

My husband wants to relax on the trip. We are not an adventurous family, but I plan so much that I have an agenda ready when we leave the house. We do train and boat rides, museum trips and I have advance bookings done for shows. But this time, we are going to take as it comes. So no advance booking to get a 10 percent discount this trip. This has been too hard for me. I am a person whose brain is constantly working on what to do next and I think this is a good exercise for me. Yes, we are not going to do activities that are time bound. But I did ask my husband whether I can blog about my trip every day? He laughed and told me that I was too hyper. Yes, I plan to blog every day. I made that decision. I do not think it would be a proper travel blog,
but my personal experience of the day before.

Today will be a 400 mile trip and our night stay will be in Midland, Michigan. So will catch up with you from Midland, Michigan hopefully with something interesting and fun.

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