Traveling-with-TLC

June 4-6: A quick trip through a pretty state. The lady who sold us our trailer thinks Iowa is the most beautiful state in the Union. We were skeptical, to say the least. Turns out, Iowa IS quite lovely. In fact, we never saw the flat semi-barren cropland we expected. Our journeys were through rolling…

May 26-June 4 In and around Galena To be honest, I started counting the days to arrive at our timeshare in Galena on Sunday and we weren’t scheduled to arrive until the next Saturday.. I was so glad we were able to move up our arrival date a few days early. Funny how being able…

May 23-26, 2022 Door County and Port Washington We visited Wisconsin when our kids were little and we loved it! We were looking forward to seeing it again. The drive down from the Upper Peninsula was long, so we found a random state park on Lake Michigan just at the “base” of Door County just…

May 20-24: Tahquamenon State Park, Whitefish Point, Vermillion Preserve and Marquette. Some adventures are fun from the outset and some make good stories later. This adventure was one of the latter. A storm was brewing (in fact a few hours after we passed through, a tornado hit Gaylord, Michigan). We were heading to spend several…

May 17-20, 2022: Airbnb and A bucket list day I know that I keep using superlatives to describe the places we are seeing, but each place seems to be getting better and better. Way back in February, we booked a three day visit to Fred and Carol’s Riverside Retreat on Airbnb. It’s a good thing…

May 16-17, 2022: A little jaunt north Since our next destination is only a few hours from Detroit, we played tourist on the way. First stop: Frankenmuth. This little town is all things Bavaria, starting with the “world’s largest Christmas store”. We stopped and wandered around. It was all a little kitschy, but fun. Turn…

May 13-16: A great museum and a great campground The Henry Ford has four main sections: The Greenfield Village, The Museum of Innovation, The Giant Screen Experience and The Ford Rouge Factory tour. We chose to explore the first two. It’s sad to miss the other two, but a person can only do so much!…

May 11- 13: A random park and birds!!!! Sometimes missing the planned activity can lead to a serendipitous activity that is even better! Lesson: go with the flow! We meant to go to the botanical garden in Ann Arbor, but the Driver/Parking Agent and the Navigator/Liaison with Google could not agree on a proper course…

May 10: Holland We stopped at a Nature Center in Michigan before traveling to Holland. Sarret Nature Preserve has miles of trails, a canopy level boardwalk (so you can look down on the birds and trees) and feeders at the visitor center. Black squirrels are everywhere and we even saw a woodchuck. I tried to…

May 9: Indiana on the way to Michigan Today was a pretty long travel day. We purposely chose to stop at Tippecanoe River as a tribute to my sister. Cyndi’s camp name is Tippee, because she once tipped a canoe and the name stuck. We simply had to go to a park that was named…