I packed up, fixed myself some breakfast. And said goodbye to Joan and Dan who shared their campsite with me last night. They gave me some good advice on what I might want to spend time seeing in the rest of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on the rest of my way through it this morning.
I went to a trail head called sleeping Bear point and met a local photographer/teacher who was just getting ready to hike the dunes to take photos. He gave me some more recommendations.
I was having trouble lining up a place to stay again. Then I decided ice cream would help or at least make me feel better. So I stopped at an ice cream shop. On my way out of the place, I held the door for the guy behind me and when he saw my bike, he was all questions. It was no more than 5 minutes and he was offering me to stay at his place down the road. We traded numbers and he gave me his address and agreed on when would be good for me to show up.
His name was Eric and when I showed up, he let me take a shower, do a load of laundry and took me down the road to a restaurant at the local casino.
I learned Eric is an iron worker, has to travel a lot for work and treats the whole world as his friend.
He has a vertical 40 foot piece of steel I beam in his back yard to practice climbing. He competes in Climbing competitions and of course uses his climbing skills in his work.
We have checked in with each other as I continued down the road.
Thanks Eric for your warm hospitality.
Slow and Steady 
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