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Great Lakes Road Trip: Mackinac Island and Toledo (Days 7-9)

Leaving Munising, Michigan and Lake Superior in our rear view mirror, we drove about two hours to St. Ignace, one of two ports that offers ferries to Mackinac Island. The other port, on the southern side, is Mackinaw City. We caught the ferry ride through Star Line Ferry.

One highlight of the short ferry ride was the amusing sight of a UPS truck sitting astride another ferry on the route over. Package deliveries are extra tricky on a car-less island!

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Great Lakes Road Trip: 9 Days - Door County, Upper Peninsula, and Mackinac Island

The Great Lakes are a unique and - in our minds - an underappreciated feature of the United States. Left behind from glacier craters and meltwater after the end of the last ice age, the immense fresh water lakes are the largest source of surface freshwater in the world when their area is combined and hold 21% of the globe’s fresh water.

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