Author Archives: Michigan Traveler
A Michigan Summer, Part Two – August 2017
After our trip to Mackinac Island, we returned to the family cottage on Rifle Lake. While Dave and Elisabeth enjoyed the day with the twins, Pat and I drove to Detroit Wayne County Airport to pick up our other granddaughter, … Continue reading
A Michigan Summer, Part One – June/July 2017
As I mentioned in an earlier post we have now camped in all of the fifty states. We are often asked what is our favorite place. We don’t have a favorite place, but I think we would both consider Michigan … Continue reading
Exploring the Thousand Islands, June 2017
The fastest route from Vermont to Michigan is through Canada. We had an option to travel straight north through Montreal or to go west through New York and cross farther down the St. Lawrence River. We chose to do the … Continue reading
Burlington, VT – Where Ethan Allen is More Than a Furniture Store, June 2017
Hurray! Vermont was state #50, Fifty states in six years. This didn’t start as a goal but it does feel good to have filled in the map. As we planned our route into Vermont we discovered that we would be … Continue reading
Have You Ever Seen the Old Man of the Mountain? – Franconia Notch State Park, NH, May 2017
This spring our plan was to complete our goal to camp in all 50 states. That is what brought us to New Hampshire and Franconia Notch State Park. Franconia Notch is a scenic mountain pass, traversed by a parkway winding … Continue reading
The Freedom Trail and the Battle Road, Boston, MA – May 2017
This was our third trip to the Boston area. The last time we were here for three weeks and did a thorough job of exploring the sights. We had explored Boston, but we had not walked the Freedom Trail. The … Continue reading
The Mystic Seaport of Connecticut and the Mansions of Newport, RI, May 2017
Our next goal was to camp in Connecticut and Rhode Island to check them off our list of states in which we hadn’t camped yet. We chose to stay at the Seaport RV Park in Connecticut without really knowing what … Continue reading
Exploring the Birthplace of the United States – Philadelphia – May 2017
There is SO much to see in Philadelphia, where do I start? Our daughter, Elisabeth, drove up from Raleigh to join us. We had done some research while we were still in Raleigh so we were pretty prepared. We had … Continue reading



