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Official Updated 3 Great Lakes in 3 Great Days Ride

Have the dinner plans for the 2 nights been decided?

Which two nights? Friday night in St. Ignace for anyone who wanted to join us was in the initial post to this thread. Its called the Village Inn. Thursday night in Davison I was thinking of a little local place called Scotti's for us to get Gene a coney dog. I taste tested them this past week and it was good.
 
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.....Sunday when you guys are heading south--- let me know if any of you want to meet up for dinner somewhere .....would be nice to see you all (well -- maybe not Gene--- but the rest of you!);)
We might be interested in this, too, depending on the timing. I have surgery the following day, so I don't want to abuse myself by eating too far off schedule (or off my dietary restrictions).
 
Which two nights? Friday night in St. Ignace for anyone who wanted to join us was in the initial post to this thread. Its called the Village Inn. Thursday night in Davison I was thinking of a little local place called Scotti's for us to get Gene a coney dog. I taste tested them this past week and it was good.
I was thinking of Friday and Saturday. So Saturday is kind of play it by ear??
Coney sounds good on Thursday. Will call when we get there.
 
I was thinking of Friday and Saturday. So Saturday is kind of play it by ear??
Coney sounds good on Thursday. Will call when we get there.

Depending on how the Village Inn was on Friday, I was thinking of eating there Saturday night as well. The menu looks good and has a nice variety. However, as Debbie stated in one of her posts, we are doing things in a relaxed manner with no strict itinerary. If you (or I) felt like eating McDonalds on Saturday night while others found someplace else, that would be fine. Last time we did this event, the hotel owners let people use their BBQ grill and cook burgers, dogs, steaks, etc. on Saturday so that is another option if anyone wanted to buy a few groceries and cook out.

I was just thinking that I might want to go across the bridge Saturday night and eat at the Bridgeview Diner since I had a good time the last time Debbie and I ate there.


EDIT: After going through his Facebook page, I am officially going to eat at the Bridgeview Diner on Saturday.
 
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Been fighting an infection for a week now, hoping to get better by Friday so Devl and I can go on this ride. We may be forced to meet folks up there on Friday. I have been following the thread all week didn't want to but in but . If your looking for a place to eat on Sat. in Newberry check out Tmber Charlies just as your coming into town on 123 cross the tracks and look right.

On Sat. evening dinner the Mackinaw Grill is great for a sit down but for the best burger in the State go to Clydes Drive Inn just west of the Bridge on 2, Big C burger is a must for the "hearty" eater.

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Been fighting an infection for a week now, hoping to get better by Friday so Devl and I can go on this ride. We may be forced to meet folks up there on Friday. I have been following the thread all week didn't want to but in but . If your looking for a place to eat on Sat. in Newberry check out Tmber Charlies just as your coming into town on 123 cross the tracks and look right.

On Sat. evening dinner the Mackinaw Grill is great for a sit down but for the best burger in the State go to Clydes Drive Inn just west of the Bridge on 2, Big C burger is a must for the "hearty" eater.

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i was also told that timber charlies was a good place to eat.......just 2cents
 
Can't wait the trip

Lynda and I cant wait. We are planing on driving up 131 to 55 to houghton lake in the morning. My phone number is 269-816-1854 and I can recieve calls on the bike. Would it be better to meet in tawas or in grayling? Either way is fine with us. jim
 
Lynda and I cant wait. We are planing on driving up 131 to 55 to houghton lake in the morning. My phone number is 269-816-1854 and I can recieve calls on the bike. Would it be better to meet in tawas or in grayling? Either way is fine with us. jim

Who were you meeting? Our group isn't going through Grayling but we are going through Tawas.
 
Lynda and I cant wait. We are planing on driving up 131 to 55 to houghton lake in the morning. My phone number is 269-816-1854 and I can recieve calls on the bike. Would it be better to meet in tawas or in grayling? Either way is fine with us. jim

Already have a planned stop in Tawas so that would be best. It limited the stops that way and gets us north just a little quicker. I figure we will already have a few pull offs just to show off the state for our out of towners.
 
Already have a planned stop in Tawas so that would be best. It limited the stops that way and gets us north just a little quicker. I figure we will already have a few pull offs just to show off the state for our out of towners.

Any chance we're stopping at the cheese mouse in Pinconning? I liked the free samples there. :)
 
Any chance we're stopping at the cheese mouse in Pinconning? I liked the free samples there. :)
Already have a planned stop in Tawas so that would be best. It limited the stops that way and gets us north just a little quicker. I figure we will already have a few pull offs just to show off the state for our out of towners.
Do you two live together or not?
 
With our work schedules, especially this week, we are sometimes like twoships that pass in the night. Good thing we have SpyderLovers to keep track of each other. :thumbup:
 
AT LAST-----WAKE UP AND GO

Tomorrow morning is the big day. Headed north cannot get there soon enough------ITS CONEY DOG TIME.

Will someone remind me ----"don't look down":yikes: when we go over the Mackinaw bridge.

See "use" guys Friday.

Checked the Michigan weather and its in the 60's at night and almost 80 during the day.
Good planning DEB.
 
Tomorrow morning is the big day. Headed north cannot get there soon enough------ITS CONEY DOG TIME.

Will someone remind me ----"don't look down":yikes: when we go over the Mackinaw bridge.

See "use" guys Friday.

Checked the Michigan weather and its in the 60's at night and almost 80 during the day.
Good planning DEB.

Looking down while riding over the grating on the bridge is part of the excitement. :2thumbs: It almost disappears when you're going 40mph. :yikes:

Can't wait to have "all y'all" up here. :doorag:
 
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Tomorrow morning is the big day. Headed north cannot get there soon enough------ITS CONEY DOG TIME.

Will someone remind me ----"don't look down":yikes: when we go over the Mackinaw bridge.

See "use" guys Friday.

Checked the Michigan weather and its in the 60's at night and almost 80 during the day.
Good planning DEB.
Aren't you planning on coming in Thursday night. :dontknow: Planning on Coney Dog Thursday night, I think. Janet & I should be checking into the motel, mid afternoon on Thursday.
 
Play time never comes fast enough

OOOOOOPS-----a natural retiree error----six Saturdays and one Sunday. So mid week is a bit confusing.
Game plan is :
Spend Wednesday night in Saint Joesph. Take a leisurely ride up the west cost until Flint is due East then take all back roads to Davidson arrive around noon.
I am ready -----packed and loaded the Spyder this afternoon.
Now I am just watching the clock.
 
I can not wait for everyone to get here and then the ride north. I get home from work Thurs. morning about 10:30 am I plan on doing my workout and then taking a little nap so I can meet everyone for dinner Thurs night. If it isn't too late and the weather is good, we can all come back to the house for a Bon Fire that evening to relax before the morning ride. The weather has been great, not too hot during the day and great sleeping weather at night. We have had some rain but I do believe by the weekend and then heading north we are going to be missing anything else. I so need a trip with no rain.
 
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