Started in: Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Ended in: Dimondale, MI
Total Distance: Driving; 474 kilometers, Boating: 10 miles
So I'm going to call it. Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario is not a nice city. A lot of places were boarded up. We went to a pretty nice place, the Breakfast Pig. It was vegetarian friendly, despite the name, and GF friendly. The coffee wasn't great, and their iced coffee was sweetened with maple syrup (Canada, go fig), and tasted overwhelmingly like maple syrup, not coffee. After this, we went to the mall and Tim Horton's and then head back to America (note, explaining to the boarder guard that we really went into Canada basically just so we could say we went into Canada isn't exactly easy). I finally put together some geography and realized that St. Ignace is right next to the bridge, therefore a trip to Mackinac Island was thrown on to the itinerary. We stopped at the Pink Pony, walked very little, and basically jumped on the ferry shortly after we got off the island.
From there, the day was uneventful. We headed down to Panchero's in Lansing (really to honor Newman, the only Spartan I've ever been able to talk to), and then dropped into a hotel just south of Lansing for the night. Tomorrow it's Indy and then back to St. Louis as we are just a few days before the end of the trip.