Bay City, Michigan - Cheyenne Couture

When I was in Howell, one of those boys on their skateboards came down the hill and knocked me over, and I hit my head and blacked out.

When I awoke I was back in Singapore with my iced Milo, although now much more melted than when I first got it. I must have daydreamed off for a bit. How strange that I had hallucinated that I did not have my watch. I would be lost without it.

Speaking of the watch, it notified me that there was yet another meeting of the secret extra-terrestrial kind in Bay City, Michigan. So I tossed out my sadly wasted iced Milo (since food cannot travel with me), and tapped my watch three times…

… and landed in the middle of a swamp. Damn, my calibration must be off. I wade out of the water and through the cattails and come across a wooden bridge. A family passes by on their bikes, gawking at me in the water.  I wave and make some excuse about dropping my phone as to not cause suspicion.

I have landed in the middle of a state park. The Bay City State Park to be specific. I had been told the meeting is in the woods behind Tobico Marsh so I began to hike there.

I walked down the cement path and out of the forest and find a cute little nature center. When wandering inside, I was educated about the various wildlife in the area, and played a few of their interactive quizzes on wildlife (my favorite was the birds of prey quiz, I love owls.) After my visit there, i noticed in a distance the splash park and large wooden playscape that was populated by lots of laughing and playing children. I wished to join them, but that would be highly inappropriate since I am an adult and I do have a meeting to get to.

 

I continued down the path and found that it led back out to main road. Across the street from me was a cute little ice cream shop next door to a mini golf course. I wish that I hadn’t come on business, I made a mental note to take a ride on the bumper boats later.

I eventually crossed a street, (I also realized that I may have gone the long way around to view those two places, since the path to Tobico Marsh is literally across from the nature center). I walk down this long path on my way to the marsh. It was enclosed by trees for a brief time and a quite relaxing environment to be in. After I had been walking for about 20 minutes, the path forked, one going down a private road and the other going deeper into the marsh, and I followed the latter. Our meeting was being held at the top of the second observatory tower, the one that was deeper in the forest and therefore harder to reach. The hike through the forest was pleasant, and I stopped briefly at one of the observation areas to watch a pair of swans float peacefully on the water. Another 20 minutes of hiking through the woods and I had arrived at my meeting. I climb the 3 flights of stairs and prepare myself to be very bored for the next hour.