Trippin' with Susan Straley

 Greetings from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This is how I posted to my blog last time I wrote you.  I don’t like spending time indoors when it is nice out, so I set up a place to write inside my clam at West Bay Camping Resort in Rhinelander, WI. My last night in Rhinelander, my sister Mary and her husband Dave took me out to eat at Moon Dance In Sugar Camp Wisconsin.  We had a table looking out at the lake.  After supper we went down to enjoy the view a bit closer. The next morning I hooked up the trailer and my new emergency brake cable seems to be just the right length, a bit shorter than the chains. Sunset Bay RV Resort was only 150 miles away.  I felt no stress to get there in time for the Weeroll gathering. I could see and hear Lake Superior from my campsite.   I texted Mary, Terry and Steve to let them know I arrived just fine.  I wanted to share pictures with them, but here was one more great spot without good cell or WiFi. After I got set up I walked around looking for ot

 Hello and Happy Fall! Suddenly it is September!  Tonight the temp here in Rhinelander, WI, will dip down to 46 degrees.  I am doing some domestic chores preparing for the journey home. I talked about the trailer's emergency brake cable in my last blog.  Bill D. emailed me and told me how to fix it.  I still didn't get what he was saying until he sent me pictures of the clamps you can buy to clamp onto a cable (to make a loop for example) without having to buy a bulky and an expensive crimping tool. I bought more cable and the clamps and fixed it myself!  Thanks Bill!   I felt a little Rosie-the-Riveter pride as I called Schroeders RV Service center and canceled the appointment I had made with them to install a new emergency brake on my trailer. The cable goes from that little black box to the hitch on my truck.  If the trailer becomes un-attached when I am going down the road, the cable will pull the emergency break on the trailer. Today it was cool and I didn't have any b