August 2017 FREE! © northerncamper.com Secrets of the Great Lakes C A D I L L A C S A N D S R E S O R T Monroe Achers Farm Patio Dining on Lake Cadillac Bed & Breakfast Live Music Fridays, 5-8:30 Kayak, Paddleboat, Pontoon Rentals Farmhouse Comforts Spectacular Views 10% Off Food or Rentals! Just come on in and tell us, “I want some fun in the sun!” 231-824-3391 • monroeachers.com • 7639 N. 41 Rd., Manton 6319 M-115, Cadillac • 231-775-2407 • cadillacsands.com Missaukee County Parks NORTHLAND TRAILERS Missaukee Lake Day Month Season CABINS Cadillac’s Longest Electric $25 $450 $1,525 2 Days/$45 Per Night Full Hook-Up $30 $525 $1,825 $210 For 7 Days Established RV Dealer for Over 45 Years! Electric Primitive No Reservations Crooked Lake $25 $20 Crooked Lake • Travel Lite Truck Campers Ben D. Jeffs Open to Hiking & River Access • Jason Fiberglass & Unicover Aluminum Truck Caps NEW RENTAL HOME – Only $800 per week. 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Barnes Park ~ East Port ..................................................... 2, 23 Bear Track Studios/Holly Wild Books ~ Bitely ...................13, 14 Boon Grocery ~ Beautiful Downtown Boon ........................... 10 Bostick’s Drug Store ~ Manton ................................................ 7 Cadillac Area Silent Observer ................................................... 9 Cadillac Family Pharmacy ~ Cadillac ...................................... 16 Cadillac Farmers’ Market ........................................................12 Cadillac Sands Resort ~ Cadillac .............................................. 2 Cadillac Wexford Transit Authority/Wex Express ~ Cadillac ...19 Camp Cadillac Campground & RV Park ~ Cadillac ................. 23 Cardinal Creations/Cardinal Nest ~ Lake City .......................... 8 Chandler Hill Campground ~ Boyne Falls ............................... 23 Culver’s ~ Cadillac, Gaylord, Traverse City ............................... 3 Dew-Drop Trailer Rental ~ Wexford County............................. 2 Everflowing Waters Campground ~ Williamsburg ................. 23 Fife Lake Chamber of Commerce ~ Fife Lake ......................... 24 Don’t peek until complete! 22 Page Fox Motors ~ Cadillac .............................................................. 7 Good Same Club of Michigan ~ Everywhere! .......................... 7 Houghton Lake Travel Park ~ Houghton Lake ........................ 23 Kampvilla RV Park ~ Bear Lake .............................................. 23 Korner Gem ~ Traverse City ................................................... 18 Lake City Chamber ~ Lake City .............................................. 21 Latitude 44 ~ Manton .............................................................. 9 Made Up North ~ Roscommon ...............................................14 Michigan Back Roads ~ Everywhere! ...............................19, 21 MI News 26 ~ Cadillac & Everywhere! .................................. 21 Expires 09/01/17. Valid at Traverse City, Gaylord & Cadillac. Expires 09/01/17. Valid at Traverse City, Gaylord & Cadillac. Missaukee Conservation District ~ Lake City ......................... 21 Missaukee County Parks ~ Lake City ................................. 2, 23 CAMPERS! Monroe Achers Farm/B&B ~ Manton ...................................... 2 Stop in to cool off Northern Exposure Campground ~ Mesick ............................ 23 yourself and your Northern Hearth Quilting & Sewing ~ Cadillac ........................ 8 COOLERS! Northland Trailers ~ Cadillac ................................................... 2 ONLY $1.99 for a Pahl’s Feeds & Needs ~ Buckley .............................................17 # Plum’s Natural Garden ~ Merritt ............................................11 10 bag of ice Expires 09/01/17. Valid at Traverse City, Gaylord & Cadillac. Expires 09/01/17. Valid at Traverse City, Gaylord & Cadillac. Rapid River Campground & Cabins ~ Kalkaska ....................... 2 The Quilter’s Clinic ~ Fife Lake ........................................... 8, 24 CADILLAC Third Day Farm ~ Lake City .................................................... 20 8645 E. 34 Rd. • 231-775-2166 Twin Oaks Campground & Cabins ~ Wellston ................... 2, 23 GAYLORD Put Your Business in The Northern Camper! 1397 W. Main St. • 989-448-8300 Call or text 231.394.1549 or e-mail TRAVERSE CITY [email protected] 101 US Hwy. 31 South • 231-943-7300 876 Munson Ave. • 231-421-9004 4 l The Northern Camper ✎ Editor’s Pencil Hi everyone! One of the best things about being in any type of journalism role is meeting cool people and learning their © stories. Another bonus is living in this beautiful state and meeting camping people; you just can’t go wrong. V O L U M E 1 3 I S S U E 3 l A U G U S T 2 0 1 7 My first communication with Barb Thierwechter was her request for a subscription in 2015. Bless her heart; she Camper Sudoku .............................................3 put up with me mailing to the wrong address for her first Shipwrecks ~ Secrets of the Great Lakes .......5 two issues. She’s still with us and now, I call her friend. An avid camper, she has written stories for us as well as Good Sam of Michigan ..................................7 published a book, “Catholic Churches We Attended When Quilting Campers ..........................................8 Traveling In Our Motorhome.” She continues to send me Loon Watch ...................................................9 sponsor leads and kind e-mails, always with messages of inspiration. Barb recently shared this short note: Top 10 Safety Tips For Camp .........................9 A couple years ago, when we were packing up at a Cookin’ Campers .........................................10 campsite, I decided to leave a quarter on the picnic Campin’ Kids ...............................................13 table for the next camper to find and ever since that time we made this our tradition. I’m wondering if any Word Search ...............................................14 Northern Camper readers pulled into a camp site we Crossword ...................................................15 vacated and found the quarter we left. It would be Campground Critter ....................................16 fun to have them Vegetation Station .......................................17 contact Northern Camper and say Got Rocks....................................................18 where they found it. Michigan Back Roads ..................................19 We camped in two Festivities ....................................................20 parks over the 4th of Favorite Destinations ...................................22 July so there are two more tables out there Cover & Feature ~ Enjoy this blast from the past; one of our reader’s favorite issues from August 2010. with a quarter. I’m not sure where Barb camped, but it will be a “God The Northern Camper is distributed May though October in Thing” if whoever picked up one of those quarters reads this. Wexford, Missaukee, Osceola, Mecosta, Roscommon, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Antrim, Charlevoix, and Chippewa Please let us know if Barb and God connected with you! Counties: also in Clare, Coldwater, Dundee, Monroe, New Be sure to check out our new feature called the North- Buffalo, St. Ignace and Sault Ste. Marie Welcome Centers. ern Camper Adventures, a 2 1/2 minute video interview The Northern Camper is published by S.S. Signals Marketing that focuses on you. The story is aired for one week, four in Lake City, Michigan. Entire contents copyright 2017 by S.S. times a day during MiNews26 morning and evening Signals Marketing. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use news. In addition, your video stays posted on MiNews26. of content in any manner is strictly prohibited. The Northern com, northerncamper.com and both Facebook pages for Camper is a registered trademark and its’ use is prohibited. the entire year! You can also find it on YouTube and that S.S. Signals Marketing reserves the right to refuse advertising could be there until the cows come home! not deemed acceptable by the publisher, Kathy Sandage. We also have our 4th Annual Senior Camper Picnic Share Your Stories! coming up on August 8. This is a great day to celebrate (231) 394-1549 or (231) 824-3812 our seniors in Missaukee County and enjoy being [email protected] outdoors. Until next month, happy camping! 8370 W. Jennings Rd., Lake City, MI 49651 ©2017 ~ Cheers and God Bless, Kathy northerncamper.com Lake Adventures Shipwrecks ~ Secrets of the Lakes When Doug Bell looks out onto Lake Michigan The preserves, created in the 1980s to protect he’s usually not daydreaming about boating or wreck sites, are some of the best dive sites to con- kayaking. He’s usually thinking about the next sider. Many of them are in less than 60 feet of wa- shipwreck he’ll be able to explore. ter, making them perfect for the novice diver and Bell, proprietor of Scuba North in Traverse City, the professional alike. Unlike ocean wrecks which has explored wrecks all over the world. A profes- have been stripped of artifacts for souvenirs, Great sional diver who Lake wrecks worked in the have long been