I thought I’d do a quick summary of our trip before getting into detailed posts. After all, all I had to do was copy and paste most of the info from a FB post. What was I thinking? This is WordPress – it doesn’t do easy. Instead, it converted every individual line of the copied text into a separate paragraph. Ugh. It probably would have been simpler to re-type everything rather than fix the resulting mess, but I’m hard-headed so I did things the hard way. Anyhoo, here is the promised summary:
Trip Length: Twenty-five days and 4,505 miles
States Visited:
- North Carolina
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Ohio
- Indiana
- Michigan
- Wisconsin
- Minnesota
- Illinois
- Kentucky

Places visited:
- New River Gorge National Park
- Babcock State Park (West Virginia)
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park
- The House from A Christmas Story
- Indiana Dunes National Park
- Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
- Castle Rock (St. Ignace, Michigan)
- Mackinac Island
- Tahquamenon Falls State Park (Upper Peninsula of Michigan)
- Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
- Atomic Antiques (Madison, Wisconsin)
- The Bronze Fonz (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- The Kaskaskia Dragon (Vandalia, Illinois)
Great Lakes:
- Erie
- Michigan
- Huron
- Superior
We’re only missing Lake Ontario!
I’ll break the future posts out by state, assuming I survive grooming (aka shaving) Kota, our long-haired cat. Wish me luck!