When I was married, my ex was on a trip with two friends and myself. Basically, we rode from Rockland to Sidnaw, here is exactly what I wrote back in
Feb of 2009:
So when we arrived in Sidnaw my wife was not pleased with the only restaurant in town. I don't know why either, but she insisted we go somewhere else. So about an hour later, we came to a sign that said Chuck Wagon Hot Food 1 Mile and 20 miles to food the other way. My wife said she was starving and she wanted to go to "Chuck's Wagon Restaurant" I did not argue just asked if she was sure she could not wait. She said NO! Well At the corner of South Laird and South Laird Roads, we found "Chuck's Wagon Restaurant" Not quite a Restaurant but I wish I had a picture of my wife when we made the turn and saw this
I knew exactly the "type" of "Restaurant" we were going to and so did the other guys. I think it took us a good 20 min to stop laughing. My wife was not amused.
The very first trip I ever went on, I had a rental and I was the guy in the back trying to catch up... We were in Cadillac and my buddy (my best friend since 2nd Grade) leading knew his way around a city really well, but I found out not to let him lead in the woods. LOL
We came up to one intersection that according to the map we should go straight for a bit then take a left. Well we went straight and then you tell the trail was slowly turning more and my right. we came back to a few more intersections... He convinced us we were not as far as we had thought and we had a ways to go to get to that intersection and it would be coming up shortly... We ride for a bit more... The sun has set at this point but as we come up to another intersection I'm thinking to myself, man it feels like we have been here before... Then the next intersection comes up and I'm like there is no way these two intersections both feel like I've been here before and there are this many intersections that are similar... We stopped for a break and I said, I'm low on fuel I just going to sit right here a wait for you to come back around for a third time. Because you are going in circles... That went over like a lead balloon... As they pulled away I thought my choice if I was actually wrong.
I decide to grab two big branches and make an X in the middle of the trail. then caught up to the group... We got to the intersection and my buddy leading stopped and walked back to me and said, see I know where I'm going we have not passed one intersection that had tree branches lying across it. I said, you are right, I put the branches there! The left-hand turn ended up being about 30 feet from the intersection where the sign had fallen down. Once you made that left the two trails ran parallel to each other with a creek dividing them. then about and 1/8 down the trail took a hard left. So when looking at it on a map it was a bit confusing plus with the sign down it was the perfect problem waiting to happen.
It was a great trip and made me buy a sled for the next year!
