# 2024-08-25 - Crystal, Michigan to Big Rapids, Michigan

### 📅 Trip Timing

| Start Date | End Date | Start Time | End Time |
|------------|----------|------------|----------|
| 2024-08-25 | 2024-08-25 | 9:30 AM | 7:00 PM |

**High**: 87° / **Low**: 69°  
**Weather**: Partly Cloudy  

**Map**: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/RqU1qn3qqZZxuzYp9 ](https://maps.app.goo.gl/RqU1qn3qqZZxuzYp9 )  
**Photos**: [https://photos.app.goo.gl/YFAj8CLgNf1tpuJPA ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/YFAj8CLgNf1tpuJPA )  


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### 🔔 Trip Reminders


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### 🎯 Bingo Progress

| Player | Bingos |
|--------|--------|
| Player 1 | 1 |

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### 📊 Counters

| Label | Count |
|-------|-------|
| $ - Dollar General | 9 |
| $ - Dollar Tree | 1 |
| $ - Family Dollar | 4 |
| Bridget's Mix | 0 |
| Cannabis Stores | 1 |
| Golf Courses | 1 |
| Mothman | 0 |
| Sasquatch | 0 |
| Solar Farms | 0 |
| Solar Panels | 6 |
| Windmills | 5 |

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### 🚘 License Plates Found

- 🇺🇸 **US Plates**: 16  
- 🇨🇦 **Canada Plates**: 2  
- 🌎 **Other Plates**: 0  
- 🏎️ **Michigan Plates**: 0  

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### 🛣️ Locations

| ✅ | City | POI | Notes | Gas Price |
|-----|------|-----|-------|-----------|
| ✅ | Fowler, Michigan |  |  | $3.24 |
| ✅ | Butternut, Michigan |  |  | $ |
| ✅ | Crystal, Michigan |  | Nothing There | $3.28 |
| ✅ | Sumner, Michigan |  | Nothing There | $3.34 |
| ✅ | Elm Hall, Michigan |  | Nothing There | $3.49 |
| ✅ | Riverdale, Michigan |  | Ghost Town Salon | $ |
| ✅ | Elwell, Michigan |  |  | $ |
| ✅ | Winn Home, Michigan |  |  | $ |
| ✅ | Vestaburg, Michigan |  | Two Story Outhouse | $3.35 |
| ✅ | Edmore, Michigan |  |  | $3.37 |
| ✅ | Blanchard, Michigan |  |  | $3.28 |
| ✅ | Millbrook Twp, Michigan |  |  | $ |
| ✅ | Remus, Michigan |  |  | $3.39 |
| ✅ | Mecosta, Michigan |  |  | $ |
| ✅ | Rodney, Michigan |  |  | $ |
| ✅ | Big Rapids, Michigan |  |  | $ |

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### 🌊 Rivers & Lakes

- Stoney Creek
- Maple River
- Pine River
- Rock Lake
- Gun Lake
- Chippawa River Watershed
- Pretty Lake

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### 🦌 Animals

- Dog
- Horse
- Chickens
- Cow

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### 📝 Trip Notes

- The highlight of this trip was the Mecosta Book Gallery.
- This bookstore is wall to wall used books.
- Like there is barely enough room for people to squeeze through, but it has tons of extremely old and rare books.
- There are even books in the bathroom. (Eww)

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### 📍 Points of Interest

| Interest | Location | Notes |
|----------|----------|-------|
| Ghost Town Salon | Elwell | Ghost Town |
| Mecosta Book Gallery | Mecosta | https://wizardsbookshelf.com/mbg.html |