{"id":680,"date":"2022-08-10T21:41:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2022-08-10T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:41:18","slug":"august-9-day-70-st-ignace-mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"August 9 (day 70) &#8211; St. Ignace, MI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before leaving our site in Bay City we took a nice walk along the boat lunch that empties into Lake Michigan.&nbsp; To get to our next site, St. Ignace, we had to cross the impressive Mackinac Bridge, a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac and connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan.&nbsp; It was opened in 1957 after three years of construction and, at 26,372 feet (5m\/8km), was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.&nbsp; Now, 65 years later, it still remains the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3487-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-689\" width=\"842\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3487-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3487-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3487-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3487-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3487-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3487-1-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><figcaption>Bay City boat launch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3486-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-690\" width=\"841\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3486-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3486-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3486-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3486-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3486-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3486-1-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><figcaption>Walking path beside Bay City boat launch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"728\" src=\"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3505-1024x728.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-691\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3505-1024x728.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3505-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3505-768x546.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3505-1536x1092.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3505-2048x1456.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Mackinac Bridge (no way we were going to get a better photo than this postcard).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_2077-650x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-692\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_2077-650x1024.jpeg 650w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_2077-190x300.jpeg 190w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_2077-768x1210.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_2077-975x1536.jpeg 975w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_2077-1300x2048.jpeg 1300w, http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_2077-scaled.jpeg 1625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>On the bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before leaving our site in Bay City we took a nice walk along the boat lunch that empties into Lake Michigan.&nbsp; 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