Andrew's Blog

In Michigan you need to go snowmobiling at least once...well we liked it so much, we went twice. The first time there was a fresh dump of snow and we took off north to Boyne Mountain where there is also a ski resort. We stayed at Petosky on the lake at a really beautiful resort (there was a black out in Midland and were forced to find shelter) and spent one day skiing and the other snowmobiling.


This hotel is based on the old style hotels back in the 20's where you had rooms with high ceilings, great service, a relaxing beach front, and an all around feeling of being taken care of.

Riding a snowmobile is like riding a motorcycle except harder to turn. It is pretty powerful and hard to control if you make abrupt moves while accelerating. Once you get the hang of it is great especially on flat areas with fresh snow.

You have to becareful though where you ride because there are barbed wire fences around and if they are covered in snow are hard to see and may a snowmobiler has lost a leg or an arm after flying through unfamiliar farm land...

Snowmobiler's are also very friendly or so we thought... When we went down a trail, we came across a group of riders heading the other direction. They all started to wave as they past. Of course we waved back. Then I started to notice that with this group of 5 riders, the beginning rider waved at us with all five fingers, then the next with four, and then so on until the last one who did not wave at all. It was only then did I realize that they were signaling how many riders were left behind them in their group!

As there are a lot of corners along the trail, you need to keep a watch out for oncoming traffic....