After we left Mackinac Island, we decided to take the bridge over to St Ignace. When it was completed, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world and remains the third longest to this day.
Right at the end of the bridge is the welcome station for the Upper Peninsular and when you travel with three seniors you stop at many welcome stations. The worker in the information center gave us lots of information but also gave us a tip for dinner.
Marina at St. Ignace
Lighthouse at St. Ignace
At the Village Inn the signature dish is Planked Whitefish and it sounded too good not to order. The description read, “A fresh whole filet of baked whitefish baked on a maple plank, sautéed vegetables, parmesan crusted tomato crown and bordered with duchesse potatoes” and it tasted every bit as good as this picture looks.
Plank Whitefish
This was also the place we found out about “Yoopers”. This is the name given to people living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. While we were at the restaurant we asked the waitress if she was a Yooper and she was. Naturally, the next question was what do you call the people in the Lower Peninsula? Without a moment’s hesitation she replied, “Trolls!” and that was that.
Thursday was a relaxing day in Petoskey where we added to the economic welfare of the community and finished with dinner at the Twisted Olive as our farewell to Carol. 
Flowers all around town in Petoskey
She was leaving on an early flight out of Traverse City and we would have to leave the RV at 3:30 in the morning to get her to the airport on time. We really enjoyed having Carol with us but all good things must come to an end, and it was time for us to move on as well.
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Three seniors? I thought Carol was only 39.