Deep Fried Oreo Cookies

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We finally left the cabin today. On our way south, we passed a couple of circus truck that were also headed south. Around Flint a bunch more were rendezvoused at a rest stop. I got a picture of this fried Oreo food truck. This dessert intrigued me and I looked it up and got a screen shot of one above. Fast forward to Ann Arbor. On our final approach Anne discovered that a restaurant in town serves this dessert, the Black Pearl. After dinner at Grizzly Peak, we walked over there and got an order to share with Harry. He seemed to enjoy it and Anne after repeatedly telling me not to get one for her. She ate it anyway and liked, but is still too prideful to admit it.

Tahquamenon Upper Falls Boardwalk

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Yesterday, I escaped the cabin and fled to Tahquamenon. Not this time to look at the falls, but to see the new boardwalk that had been installed at the upper falls. This ADA compliant walkway now makes the upper falls wheelchair accessible. Measuring 1100′ in length and 22′ in height, it snakes its way down the hillside from the overlook above, down to the viewing platform adjacent to the falls. This boardwalk replaces the old staircase that has been removed. I find it amazing that all of this construction work was completed last winter. Especially since nearby Seney has yet to finish their new visitor’s center and it has been four years and counting.

Descending its ramp, I kept wondering if anyone has used it for skateboarding yet? Some of its corners are tight, but any skater worth their salt should be able to shred the course. I found a ranger asked him about this subject. Initially he said that they do not allow skateboards but eventually admitted that there are no regulation prohibiting anyone from doing this, unless their board is motorized, which would greatly help with the return trip.