June 11, 2022 We originally planned to just visit Charleston, WV as it is only 2.5 hours from Columbus, but after some research we found a surprising little gem in New River Gorge National Park, an extra hour drive from Charleston. Commissioned in 2020, the park is the newest national park in the US...
We settled on Columbus, OH as our next month-long stay. The place we found was decently sized and relatively inexpensive while also being right in between a number of destinations we eventually traveled to such as New River Gorge NP, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. The four weeks we spent in Columbus was short, we only...
May 28-29, 2022 Our two days in Detroit were pleasant and eventful. On Saturday, we attended a Detroit Tigers baseball game, after which we walked around downtown and slowly meandered toward the Detroit River where we gazed across the border at the Canadian Caesars Palace in Windsor. Right on the shore of the Detroit...
Following our weekend in Marquette, we stayed in Ann Arbor, MI for a week which gave us some much needed time to plan our next month-long stay after a hectic final few weeks in Chicago. We were able to take care of some paperwork finalizing our Transit purchase and do thorough research on our...
May 21, 2022 Our day in Marquette was splendid and the Lake Superior area was as beautiful as everyone says it is. We started off the day walking all the way out to the Presque Isle Breakwater Lighthouse which required us to climb over a quarter mile of giant boulders that made up the...
May 20, 2022 The immediate stop after Chicago was Marquette, MI, and in order to get there we had to drive through Green Bay, WI. I couldn’t let myself get near Green Bay without stopping by Lambeau Field to at least take a picture from the outside. I decided to make it more interesting...
There is so much more to Chicago than just the few posts I shared about it. The diversity of restaurants, grocery stores, museums, sporting events, and parks is rivaled by only a couple of other cities in the US. If Chicago grows tiring or you want to catch a Bucks game, Milwaukee is only...
May 13, 2022 We decided to make an unplanned drive to Grand Rapids, MI to take a look at a Ford Transit that met our requirements. We had been researching Transits for about a month prior and very few were available and for sale. So when we saw one that looked promising a few...
Take me out to the ballgame for some sunshine After a month of bitter cold and rain, the sun finally came out just in time for our scheduled trip to Wrigley Field to watch the Cubs take on the Dodgers. There, Cynthia and I met up with my old friend Fernando and his wife...
Beautiful, cold, hot, and refreshing It’s impossible to ignore the amazingly teal-blue waters of Lake Michigan while in Chicago. Almost every activity or event we went to was either at the lake, had a view of the lake, or was affected by the lake. The weather we experienced each time we ventured to the...
