After Nashville we were going to meet up with Cassie and her family in WI for the 4th of July and decided to go to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for the two weeks before the 4th.   On our way to the UP we decided to drive along Lake Michigan and stop to visit one of Joe’s fellow Toro friends who retired a few years after Joe and recently bought a summer cabin outside of Traverse City in the beautiful woods of Michigan.  Paul spent a day showing us the sites in this area of Michigan which we had not been to.  We eat lunch at Joe’s Tavern in Empire which was quaint.  We took a walk in Sleeping Bear sand dunes, checked out a lighthouse, and just enjoyed a drive through…