Davison MI - 2018

We arrived at the "Outdoor Adventures lake shore RV Resort".  When we arrived, they couldn't initially find our reservations, but then finally found it..whew.  The RV park is huge and you picked your spot.  They shouldn't of left that up to me, because I must of picked the worst spot possible.  It was short and right next to the busiest access road in the park.  But I have no one to blame, but me...and maybe a little Terry (don't tell her though).  We stayed here because it was relatively close to Terry's parents house in Lapeer.




While we stayed here, we spent most of the time at Terry's parents house.  We did get a chance to check out the area a little.  One day, we headed south to Cabela's.  I don't remember why, but does it really matter?  It was Cabela's after all.  On the way there, I found out that on some of the main roads, they don't allow you to do a left turn.  You have to do a right turn and about a quarter of a mile down the road, you have to do a U-turn.  (it's all designed for this too with a light at the U-Turn spot).  I think it's stupid because instead of having to stop at one stop light, now you have to stop at 3...one at the corner you want to turn left at, one at the U-turn corner, and then back at the light where you wanted to turn left to begin with.  I just call it Stupid!, Stupid!, Stupid!.

Terry was just a itchin to get to Frankenmuth Mi.  This is the home of Christmas spirit...or German spirit.  Not sure which, but it looks very German to me and there is a Christmas store that hands you a map of the store when you enter.  Can you say big?  So we spent...I don't know...about two days in the store?  Maybe just an hour, not for sure, the time stopped I think.  After, christmas, we headed to the main downtown area.  Here you can take a river boat ride, shop in the German stores, and have some German food if you like. We had chicken.  (yes, there was a restaurant famous for their chicken.)  Terry was lucky to find a wine tasting store, where she promptly tasted and then bought some wine.  One of them was even a chocolate wine.  (I might end up of seeing that store again in the near future).  We also picked up some sweet bread (no, not brains!  real sweet bread!).  We bought some other stuff too I think, but don't remember what it was...not important anyway.  We did snap a few pictures for you too.

A few days later, we headed to Port Huron to check out a Lighthouse.  It is called "Fort Gratiot Lighthouse", and took a tour of it.  It was a nice tour and the tour guide was very knowledgeable.  We viewed a school house that they cut in half to make two houses.  Later they were able to retrieve the two houses and then used superglue to put them back together...ok maybe a nail or two also.  It was a tall lighthouse, I think 90 steps or so to the top.  We got pictures of this place too!

While in Port Huron, we checked out the Museum for Thomas Edison.  Did you know he worked in a train Depot?  He even had his own printing press in one of the train cars.  Here is the pictures I took of this joint.





Then her parents took us on another adventure to visited Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park.

On the way to the above parks, we drove by...yes it is true...a field full of  Giant Marshmallows!  I know!  I couldn't believe it either.  I would show you what I saw, but Terry's mom just drove on by without even stopping or letting me get a picture.  But that's ok, I found a similar one on the web.  It's the one on the left of the screen here.  The other people in the car said they were the big round hay bales covered in a white plastic, but I knew better.  They were marshmallows! Giant Marshmallows! The procedure to harvest them is they take a long hollow pole and stick it through the big marshmallow.  This makes a long marshmallow which is then cut to the size we see in the stores.  For the mini marshmallows, they use a skinner pole.  I know this because I read it on the internet...just like you just did.

You see better Petroglyphs in Utah, but we have the pictures of Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park so you can see them too.  Next we headed to a farm museum called "Thumb Octagon Barn".  They had several outbuildings to include a school, little museum, blacksmith, grain building, apple press building and more.  The main attraction was the Octagon Barn which wasn't open because they were fixing it back up, like putting on new shingles and stuff like that.  You can also tour the house and garage.  We have pictures of this too.  Also this is the second place that asked if we wanted a job.  I don't know if I can be a tour guide or not.  Not sure if I could remember everything.

Terry and I headed down to the Henry Ford Museum area to check out a museum town called Greenfield Village in Dearborn MI.  I guess they brought a bunch (and I mean a bunch) of buildings from around the country and overseas too, to one location.  They set it up to look like a large town.  Took most of the day to walk around it.  They had buildings that housed slaves, buildings for crafts like tin and glass work for example, old cars driving around and horse drawn carriages going up and down the streets (leaving evidence, if you know what I mean), churches and more.  Here are the pictures we took.

Terry and I has been looking for a good rain coat and we finally found it.  It the Marmot Minimalist rain coat.  It came in handy too, when I was waiting on my truck to get fixed, I walked to Wendy's to have lunch in a downpour...Yes Rain!.

During all our adventures in and around Davison, we were able to get our truck worked on.  The dealership saw it three different times, but finally got the camera's on the mirrors fixed.  I guess John Elway Chevy, did a number to the truck, or they didn't clean up thinking they were going to see it again.  The first visit was so they can troubleshoot the camera issue.  The manufacturer stated to replace the control module and not the cameras.  Well that didn't fix anything.  So they had the camera's delivered overnight.  On the third visit (first was to troubleshoot, second was the module, and now the third), They replaced one camera and cleaned up the wiring in the back.  They worked fine until I pulled out the mirrors (into towing position) and the driver side camera went right out.  Some more troubleshooting and the tech found out they cable tied the wires (which they were not supposed to do, which partially pulled the wires apart.  So he replaced the wiring harness and all is good now.  Finally, they have only been broke since January!

I think that was it for Davison.  Off to Terry's parents house...I mean we are taking our RV there and staying in their driveway for a week or so.