Haven't you ever just thought "I could camp there"

Day 2.
I left St. Joseph at a reasonable hour in the morning feeling refreshed from the night in a hotel. The goal here was to make it up to Muskegon by the end of the day but after further inspection of the map I realized that it was just to far so I decided to stay in Holland instead which turned out to be about 70miles anyway. on my way to Holland I stopped at an ice cream shop. I think it was called Earls there are a tone of these; pick your own strawberries, get some ice cream, buy a home made pie, kind of stations that i have passed on my rides. (see pic)

Holland is a cool town and I would have loved to stay for a little while and explore but the state park is further out of town and i had to get a move on. So I stopped at the store picked up some things for dinner, including water and moved on. I headed in the direction that I thought was going to the State camp ground. Turned out that i was not really going the right way and was about to take a very large detour. In the process found out that both of the state camp grounds were full and I was going to be out of luck when i got there....(are we noticing a theme to this trip so far?) so i litterally ended up camping in a grade school playground. Now this was interesting because this school was surrounded by a big park and right at dusk the cops came around to check and see if anyone was still in the park. luckily i was hidden close to the building in a little nook. About 30mins later the sprinkler system went on and i was jolted out of my slumber by a refreshing splash of water. I spent the rest of the night on the side walk next to the building, still out of sight. (see pic) Thank you Woodside Elementary School for your hospitality.




This blog was brought to you by:
White Lake community Library
Zaterans - red beans and rice (Dinner that night)
and Naproxen (because I have been taking it since that night for my knee that is hurting) :)