Welcome back! This week I headed out as soon as I got of work Friday. I drove a few hours north to a dispersed campsite that I had come across on the travels in the past. I was looking forward to a relaxing weekend on the lake. The area looked different from the past, logging crews were cutting trees, but I knew the forest road deadened at a lake. And that lake has one single campsite with a fire ring!
I shouldn't have been surprised to see someone had found my secret spot. I hope he enjoys it as much as I wanted too! By this time, it was 6:30 and rain was starting to fall. Of course, I didn't make a second plan and my phone didn't work so I couldn't look at all the pined locations on Google maps. I decided to search with help from my Garmin. I ended up on an old trail. I couldn't see any tracks on the road and grass was growing in the ruts, so I knew no one had driven down it in a while. I was contemplating turning around, it was about 8pm at this time which meant I had been driving for over 4 hours. That is when I came across this honey hole. When I first pulled in, I thought ''this was one of the best-looking dispersed campsites I had ever seen!'' Maybe it was because I was desperate, maybe I didn't want to drive and hour and a half back to Grand Rapids to sleep at Walmart, but this felt perfect. After spending an entire weekend all alone in nature I realized this was as close to perfect as a dispersed campsite could get. I appreciate you coming along for the ride. I'll see you again next week.