Our previously made trip plans got detoured when my wife discovered she could get into U of M for a minor surgical procedure (I cut the stitches out last night so I'm thinking maybe I could have done the surgery too

). She had to be there at 8 am but we were hauling the camper and then heading north after her surgery. We got up there about 2am and parked across 7 parking spaces (I was not a popular guy that morning I'm sure but that parking lot is designated as the RV parking lot) right down by the Huron River and below the helicopter landing pads. Only heard 2 takeoffs while we were there. That is actually a pretty nice place to camp out. After I got her up the hill for the surgery the dog and I got out a couple of lawn chairs and watched the kayakers going down the Huron River.
My wife was done about 11:15 and we got back to the camper and relaxed a few minutes and then loaded up and we were pulling out at exactly noon. As we had walked back the length of that parking lot we had only seen a few parking spaces open and none adjacent to each other. Literally as I turned to pull out of the 7 spaces we looked ahead and saw a pickup hauling a long tent camper driving in and looking for a space to park. We stopped and chatted for a few minutes and I suggested he might want to go buy a lottery ticket that night too. I hope he won!!!
So, while the dog and I are on one of our walks while we waited I spotted this Ford Explorer with it's personalized license plate. I wonder if they are a Spartan fan with their own big red dog or if by chance the owner is a member of the MSU Board of Directors? Any Spartan fans out there with any ideas on that one? It must have been the owner's birthday because this was on August 31st and their license tags expired on their birthday in August of 2018. Surely no one would drive around on expired tags

I actually got busted going into the State Park in Monroe last fall a few weeks after my birthday. The gate person checked my 'passport' numbers and came back and told me it was expired. I literally had the new tag laying on the top of the center console so I showed him that and promised to go put them on as soon as I got over to the dump station.
