Saginaw Bay – Bay City

The Inside of the Thumb – Port Crescent to Sebewaing The M-25 is the rural highway that hugs the coastline of the Thumb. I’d followed it along the Eastern side from Lakeport to Port Austin, and it was fairly consistent – long stretches of views of the rocky coastline, broken up by occasional small towns […]

Southern Michigan – Detroit to Toledo

It took 55 years, but I finally made it to Michigan. I’ve visited all the neighboring states, but Michigan sort of hides out among the Great Lakes; it’s not on the way to anywhere, except perhaps Canada. Also, as soon as you cross the border from Indiana a camper is presented with a bit of […]

Northern Indiana – Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum

It was the turn of the century and Americans had begun their love affair with the automobile. Henry Ford would introduce the concept of building cars on an assembly line in 1913, but there were thousands of small local builders across the country making “small batch” automobiles in a fashion not that different than today’s […]