Vacation Recap: Day 1 — Auburn-Cord Duesneberg Museum
We made it back from our road trip and I thought I would share some of our experiences. Eventually, we will have pictures, as soon as our ‘official’ photographer sorts through the some 800 photos (yes, you read that correctly, Eight Hundred!) she took and forwards me the highlights.
The first day, Sunday, we left Pennsylvania about 7:30 am and made our way to the Auburn-Cord Duesenberg Museum in Ohio. This is a fantastic museum, well worth a couple of hours of your time. Later in the trip, we would visit the Ford Museum, but I thought the Duesenberg Museum was actually better. The layout was simply easier to navigate, and although Ford has some spectacular displays, nothing beats a Duesenberg. It is no wonder they had a great reputation then and now for luxury. The cars were simply breathtaking. In addition, the Auburn Cord museum has a display of some other fine automobiles, including ones designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
We spent several hours there, wiping the drool from our chins, and then traveled up into Michigan and headed for the western edge on the shore of Lake Michigan. We hunted down some lighthouses along the way, and walked along the beach. To my way of thinking, you haven’t really arrived until you put your toes in the water, and I promptly took care of that little detail. By the time we made our way into Holland, it was nearly 9:00. We checked into our hotel and then went to find something to eat.
At which point we found that Holland virtually rolls up its sidewalks by 9:00 on a Sunday evening. We spent well over thirty minutes driving around trying to find a restaurant that was opened. We ended with settling for a Taco Bell. Did you know that you can feed seven people for under $30.00 at Taco Bell? Later in our stay, we would find that if we had made a left instead of a right when coming out of our hotel, we would have found restaurants galore, but of course, we won’t discover this until the day before our leaving.
Day 2 is when our real adventure begins, and I’ll be blogging about author James Spurr and the subject of his books Sworn for Mackinaw and One Sloop and Slow Match: the sloop Friends Good Will. It is a memorable meeting including Miami Vice style water chases, a near ‘man-over-board’ scenario, and the sweetest sailing ship you could ever have the pleasure to sail upon.
