This little TB is has been enjoying winter at Kits Kitchee Komfort Inn, while it waits to do more traveling. It is leaving today to prepare for an upcoming roadtrip and more adventures.
This beautiful Travel Bug hotel sits on Lake Nepessing in Lapeer Michigan. The TB’s enjoy the winter here as the lake has become a frozen tundra enjoyed by fisher people who camp out on the ice. The travel bugs can enjoy skating, skiing, windsailing, snowmobiling, ice biking, ice baseball … it all happens here. They have certainly had a fun time. During the Summer months the fishermen catch bass, blue gill, walleye, pike and pickerel. While boaters enjoy crusing and watersking. Jet skis, canoes and kayaks share the water while hot air balloons, acrobat planes and lightweight craft share the sky.
Such a beautiful resort on Lake Nepessing home of the Nepessing Indians in the early 1800's until they were moved to a reservation in Grand Rapids. The lake then became a well known area of respite for the Union officers. After the war the land was bought up by investors, one being William Hunt who opened a hotel and shuttled guests on the lakes steamboat to the dance hall on the other side of the lake. This ledgendery hotel, more recently known as Castaway’s, has been around for a few years as a restaurant, but the structure has occupied its spot on Lake Nepessing since the early 1800's.
Legend has it that the location is haunted, with employees and patrons claiming to have seen a man walk off the dock into the lake or a woman leaning over the platform of the lighthouse. Others report hearing voices yell at them when walking to the back bathroom and feeling cold hands wrap around their neck near the staircase to the roof.
Thank you for sharing your adventure with me.