Today we drove from Gaylord to Muskegon with a lunch stop at Ludington.
We took some side roads out of Gaylord, and the colors were absolutely beautiful. We definitely hit the peak colors for this area. Everywhere you looked had beautiful colors - red, yellow, and orange with some green evergreens mixed in. Many of the scenes cannot be captured in a photograph, but Mary did her best. She could have taken a dozen more like these! I just love the top right picture which shows what we saw while driving. As you can see, the colors were vibrant and vivid.Bill and Mary's Wanderings
Random posts about our travels as we enjoy the "Travel Phase" of our lives...
Friday, October 18, 2024
Color Tour Day 2
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Michigan Fall Color
According to the Michigan Color Map, the northern lower peninsula is at or near its peak. So on a lark, yesterday we scheduled a 3 day 2 night trip to view the colors. The joy of being retired so we can do trips like this!
Pictures cannot capture what the eye sees. They don't do good with vistas. But here are a few of the 2 dozen photos Mary took as we drove to Gaylord today. Many beautiful scenes were hard to capture with a camera due to intervening billboards and other vehicles. And way too many came up so quick it was impossible to grab a picture. But here are a few for you to enjoy.We also took advantage of our route to visit some of Mary's dad's favorite places. He loved trout fishing and, especially, fishing on the Au Sable river. We located the place where a friend of his had a fishing cabin on the Au Sable (river picture on the right). We also had lunch at Spikes Keg o Nails, his favorite Grayling watering hole.Tomorrow we are taking local highways to Ludington, then south to Muskegon.
Monday, October 7, 2024
Trip Summary and some driving notes
During our drive home, Mary and I talked about the trip. Both of us were very impressed with the Roosevelt Museum. For anyone interested in that era of history, you could easily spend 4-5 hours seeing that museum. We went through somewhat fast as we had the house tour time, and more to do that afternoon. The other sites we visited were also quite interesting, as you read in prior posts. And there is a lot more to see in this part of the country as we did not get to Albany or Cooperstown, among other upstate New York attractions. So I encourage you to consider a visit to this beautiful part of New York, which is nothing like New York City.
Note: if you don't care about car stuff, you can skip the rest of this post! After driving this 2017 Ford CMAX hybrid for 6+ years, I had never done this type of analysis so I took this opportunity to collect some data and see how effective Ford's Gas-Electric hybrid technology really is.
That's it for this series of posts!
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Second Driving Day
Tomorrow we head to Findlay for lunch with Katie and Becca before heading for Dearborn. That's it for our trip!
Friday, October 4, 2024
First Driving Day Home
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Day 2 in the Hudson Valley
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Roosevelt Homes
Today was our day to visit FDR's Hyde Park house as well as Eleanor's Val-Kill cottage.
We arrived at FDR's house before 10 am, but the first available tour was at 11:30. So we bought tickets to the FDR Presidential Library and walked through it. This was a very good experience as it covered his entire life with mixed media presentations. Everything from his early life, to marriage to Eleanor, polio, his early political years, the New Deal, and WWII, was included. On the top right is a picture of the study in this Library that is the only room in any Presidential Library that was actually used by a President.Mary also took pictures of the huge Bible he used at his inaugurations, and his presidential desk (on the left).
On our way to the house tour, we spotted Eleanor and Franklin's graves. If you look closely, you'll see two strips with different ground cover - those are the graves of two of Franklin's dogs.