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| Chris is walking along the shore of Lake Michigan in a sand dune area - beautiful. Looking out at the water made us feel like we were in Hawaii. |
June 5
We took a scenic drive in the afternoon along the beautiful west side of Michigan. Driving south from Mackinaw City, we made a couple of stops. Chris and I walked over the dunes to such a beautiful beach; dunes, turquoise water and blue sky. It would have been a great place to sit in beach chairs and soak in the beauty. A group of teenage girls were in their bikinis squealing as they attempted a dunk in the cold water. We had been clued in to stop at Legs Inn. A Polish immigrant fell in love with this area and started building this inn with the help of the local Indians back in the 30‘s, including the furniture and art pieces. Everything was made from local wood and drift wood. He continued his creative work until he died at 81. They have been serving food here for 80 years. We continued south through the “tunnel of trees” to the quaint and upscale town of Harbor Springs. Homes on along the water are in the $2 million range. The big fancy places are out in a gated community on a spit! We checked out a couple of the shops but realized it was a little out of our price range with $250.00 cotton blouses. We were checking out a map when a woman stopped to ask us if we needed any help. She led us to Tom’s Mom’s Cookies! It turned out that she had just retired from Paramount Studios where she had a career assisting in producing TV shows. Now she is directing the “Young Americans“ with their shows. It was interesting to look her up online and find her name, Susie Freeman-Johnson, and that she worked on one of our favorite TV shows, Cheers! She was a hoot and the cookies were the best ever. We looped back up through the interior past a small ski area. It looked like bunny hills at best. Michigan is gorgeous. I had always thought of Michigan as being industrial. It has industry but most of it is forest and farming with gorgeous shorelines.
We took a scenic drive in the afternoon along the beautiful west side of Michigan. Driving south from Mackinaw City, we made a couple of stops. Chris and I walked over the dunes to such a beautiful beach; dunes, turquoise water and blue sky. It would have been a great place to sit in beach chairs and soak in the beauty. A group of teenage girls were in their bikinis squealing as they attempted a dunk in the cold water. We had been clued in to stop at Legs Inn. A Polish immigrant fell in love with this area and started building this inn with the help of the local Indians back in the 30‘s, including the furniture and art pieces. Everything was made from local wood and drift wood. He continued his creative work until he died at 81. They have been serving food here for 80 years. We continued south through the “tunnel of trees” to the quaint and upscale town of Harbor Springs. Homes on along the water are in the $2 million range. The big fancy places are out in a gated community on a spit! We checked out a couple of the shops but realized it was a little out of our price range with $250.00 cotton blouses. We were checking out a map when a woman stopped to ask us if we needed any help. She led us to Tom’s Mom’s Cookies! It turned out that she had just retired from Paramount Studios where she had a career assisting in producing TV shows. Now she is directing the “Young Americans“ with their shows. It was interesting to look her up online and find her name, Susie Freeman-Johnson, and that she worked on one of our favorite TV shows, Cheers! She was a hoot and the cookies were the best ever. We looped back up through the interior past a small ski area. It looked like bunny hills at best. Michigan is gorgeous. I had always thought of Michigan as being industrial. It has industry but most of it is forest and farming with gorgeous shorelines.
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| Leg Inn is not to be missed! Note the white stove legs as roof decorations. Too bad we had already had lunch. |
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| This is quite a room - everything made by the Polish immigrant. |
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| Don't want to meet up with this in the night! |
June 6
A long 8 hour drive today took us west of Chicago. We thought we had picked an RV park fairly close to the city but we are about two hours away. Instead of going into the city two days, we are going to take the train in and see as much as we can in one day. We will take a trolley tour to get a good overview.
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