Portage Lower Entry, MI to Houghton, MI: Daily miles 14.1, Total miles 1164.6
Done. We slept in a bit this morning and woke up the sounds of the fishermen getting ready to go out for the day. Over the night some of the Frat boys from MTU came in and untied all of the fishing boats so the fishermen had to rope them back in. Luckily none of them made it too far. Apparently they do it every year. Seems ridiculous to me. We were slow to get moving but there was no rush. Only 14 miles stood between us and the end of our journey. We paddled leisurely along, passed sights we had seen a dozen times and we finally felt home. We got into Houghton around noon and stopped at a beach on MTU’s campus to savor the moment. We called a few friends and tried to get some people around to make our homecoming more festive and maybe get some photos but we couldn’t get a hold of anyone. We couldn’t wait any longer and paddled the last mile and crossed under the lift bridge and landed on the same sand we left over two months ago. Sure we had been back twice since we left but now were really home. It was all pretty anticlimactic. No one was there. No one knew what we had done. But it felt good. Really good. I can’t even explain it.
