Mackinac Island, August 2014 - Day 6

We were up early today.  Time to start the long trek back to Lawrence.  We were on Shepler Ferry's first trip of the day to Mackinaw City.  8 am.  You can tell they have been doing this for a long time.  The Inns are very coordinated with the ferry companies.  The porter picked up the luggage from our room at 7:30.  He arrived at the dock about 10 minutes before we were to board. We had already given our car ticket to the agent who had scanned and sent that on to the dock across the Straits of Mackinac.  The luggage was put on the ferry shortly after we boarded.  Off we went.  As we were getting close to land, we received a text telling us where the car was parked.  We disembarked, quickly picked up our luggage, loaded in the car, and off to Crawfordsville, IN, for our last night of our trip.

There were a few problems along the way.  There had been a very bad accident along the freeway in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  All lanes were closed.  Took us a bit to find an alternate route as well as being able to reach and exit.  That took us about an extra 45 minutes.  We then hit Lafayette, Indiana, during the rush hour.  In total we probably had delays of an hour to reach Crawfordsville. We were glad to see the Hampton Inn and get checked in.

Tomorrow will be the final day of travel.  We will be glad to see our own beds and pick up Boz from the hotel.  (Oops, the kennel.) I will have some final thoughts in the next couple of days.