Road Trip! Around Lake Michigan
09-20-2012, 05:51 PM
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I think it's Pt Betsie, but the date stamp on my camera was set wrong and I'm not sure.
Yep. We kidded him about it, but I had an intermittant seat belt warning, intermittant airbag light, and the memory function on my seat quit. Gotta love that GM quality...
Probably, once.
This was a rather leisurely trip, except for one long lonely stretch in the UP where I achieved a new "personal best" that will not be mentioned on this Forum.
Yep. We kidded him about it, but I had an intermittant seat belt warning, intermittant airbag light, and the memory function on my seat quit. Gotta love that GM quality...
This was a rather leisurely trip, except for one long lonely stretch in the UP where I achieved a new "personal best" that will not be mentioned on this Forum.
09-20-2012, 05:55 PM
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Can you PM me your routing and stopovers?
Have a great trip!
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Thanks!
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09-20-2012, 06:49 PM
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One of the coolest things to see up there IMHO is the Fayette State park ghost town down the Garden Peninsula.
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/fayette/town.html
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/fayette/town.html
09-20-2012, 07:09 PM
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I grew up in Petoskey and miss scenery like that. Yes, Arizona has beautiful parts to the North, but nothing compares to pine trees and lakes around every turn. I would love for a trip like that!
09-20-2012, 10:12 PM
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One of the coolest things to see up there IMHO is the Fayette State park ghost town down the Garden Peninsula.
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/fayette/town.html
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/fayette/town.html
We get a lot of tv commercials about "Pure Michigan", and we used to joke about them. Now, they get a lot of respect.
09-21-2012, 11:45 AM
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It operated from something like late 1800's to early 1900's, a total of maybe 25 years. Closed down and abandoned when the price of pig iron dropped.
Lots of interesting explanations inside the buildings.
Caution: Your GPS may not work very well for the last couple of miles (see Pic #5 in original post!), watch for signs...
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The building was for smelting iron, I believe they had two furnaces in there. The town is on a little bay in the middle of nowhere (even today!), it was a company town established solely for the smelting operation.
It operated from something like late 1800's to early 1900's, a total of maybe 25 years. Closed down and abandoned when the price of pig iron dropped.
Lots of interesting explanations inside the buildings.
Caution: Your GPS may not work very well for the last couple of miles (see Pic #5 in original post!), watch for signs...
It operated from something like late 1800's to early 1900's, a total of maybe 25 years. Closed down and abandoned when the price of pig iron dropped.
Lots of interesting explanations inside the buildings.
Caution: Your GPS may not work very well for the last couple of miles (see Pic #5 in original post!), watch for signs...
Then came the invention of mechanical refrigeration and The Louisiana Ice Manufacturing Company founded in Baton Rouge in 1883 started building ice plants in the South. They could produce ice cheaper than it cost to ship from the North and killed the ice harvesting industry. Ironically, the miniaturization of this same technology (ie: the home refrigerator) virtually killed the ice manufacturing industry by 1925.
Another interesting fact is that it was 1842, when an American physician, John Gorrie, living in Apalachicola FL designed the first system to refrigerate water to produce ice. He did this because he believe bad air caused diseases and was a proponent of cooling hospital rooms to help the sick. he was never able to capitalize on it and died in 1855. The idea faded for awhile, but in 1881 Naval engineers built a cooling system using his design to cool the room of President Garfield as he was dying. And this is what eventually lead to modern refrigeration and air conditioning.
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09-21-2012, 09:22 PM
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That would be a great trip Jim.
We lived in Birmingham when I had the MI offices from '86 - '90 and enjoyed many trips through the UP, and also crossing into Canada at Sarnia, enjoying lunch there, then cruising down into Windsor then home.
We lived in Birmingham when I had the MI offices from '86 - '90 and enjoyed many trips through the UP, and also crossing into Canada at Sarnia, enjoying lunch there, then cruising down into Windsor then home.
09-22-2012, 12:19 AM
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Great photos. Glad you had fun.
When I lived in Lansing, Mi. my daughter and I took that trip in my 1993 Trans Am GT. I also enjoyed taking the Ludington, Mi. Ferry (SS Badger) across the lake to Wisconsin.
When I lived in Lansing, Mi. my daughter and I took that trip in my 1993 Trans Am GT. I also enjoyed taking the Ludington, Mi. Ferry (SS Badger) across the lake to Wisconsin.
