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Moved on up north to Gaylord KOA in Gaylord, MI. It is not as close as I would like to Mackinac Bridge between upper Michigan and the upper Michigan peninsula but it is the only campground I could find listed with wireless internet and a reasonable price to stay for a month. Other campgrounds closer to the bridge cost twice as much (over $800 for a parking space for pete’s sake!). As usual for a KOA, it is very clean, has a lovely outside pool, camping cabins, great owners and staff, and game rooms. A courtesy phone is available for local and 800 calls. Lots of trees here and easy pull through sites. Plenty of room for my slideout. Solid Wifi.
The group camping area is very nice and set away from everyone else which is great to control group noise. Something new for me here is gray water only sewer connections which use a garden hose to drain your gray water tank into a bucket in the ground and on. I had to buy a special cap for my sewer outlet to go to the garden hose which they were kind enough to lend me. The black water tank on my rig is emptied once a week by them by pumping it out into a tank wagon. From the Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, catch a tour of the Ford Rouge factory where they make trucks. Lots and lots of trucks, 60 per hour. A major marvel that has been toured by world leaders and other major carmakers, the Rouge plant was Henry’s idea to keep everything needed to build a car in one place originally, aka vertical integration. Ore is shipped there to their own port and docks, made into steel on giant rolls, pressed into the needed car parts.
The floor combines automation such as articulating arms, robots, and the moving assembly line with people’s eyes and hands. Watch a truck built before you while audio/video screens all along the overhead walk explain what is going on. Watch robots install windshields. Articulating arms help workers lift heavy objects like moon roofs and hold them in place while workers screw them in. Lifts under each truck easily raise and lower them as they move through to make it easier for workers. Near Detroit in Dearborn, Michigan is an absolutely fabulous museum that is really two in one, one inside and one outside. Here Henry Ford has gathered numerous wonders of America which make American History jump off the page and come alive which was his intention.
At the Henry Ford you will see legendary vehicles and planes like the Mark IV, winner of Le Mans and an engineering marvel, the car President Kennedy was assassinated in, the car President Reagan was pushed into after being shot, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, the Fokker plane that took Admiral bird to the South Pole area, cars of celebrities like John Lennon and Madonna, stagecoaches, sleighs, trains, Henry’s first car the Quadricycle, etc. Want to see the old McDonald’s sign when burgers were 15 cents? It’s there along with the old drive-thru when you ate from a tray hung on your door and the old railroad car diner by the side of the road. A new design for affordable mass produced homes built in 1946 which looks like a spaceship and is called the Dymaxion house is there.
One day I got up at a decent hour considering I work Pacific time and am living in Eastern time. I saw that there was a Bob’s Big Boy restaurant here so I set out to explore this burg of Monroe, Michigan and find an icon I have not eaten in since I left Los Angeles many years ago. Just as I found it, my Yukon picked up the scent of lake air and zoomed right on by and off to another adventure. Personally, I think George put it up to it.
Something that has really come in handy in this Yukon is the compass in the mirror. I always know what direction I am going which sure helps when all the directions I am given say to go west here and south there etc. I noticed my Yukon was headed SE per the mirror which could only mean he was headed to one lake in particular nearby, Lake Erie. Sure enough, a few minutes later, we were pulling into a state park and up it popped for as far as the eye can see. Lake Erie is easy to recognize. Just look for the nuclear power plant and other industry stacks along the edge. 😉
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