The thoughtful adventures of Man, Woman and Cat.
It took 55 years, but I finally made it to Michigan.
I’ve visited all the neighboring states, but Michigan sort of hides out among the Great Lakes; it’s not on the way to anywhere, except perhaps Canada. Also, as soon as you cross the border from Indiana a camper is presented with a bit of a problem. Detroit looms at the door to the state like Mr. T in his ill-tempered bouncer days. How would I deal with the challenge of camping in a densely populated, high crime metropolitan area?
When I left the Cord museum in Auburn Indiana, it was to hunt down another sort of spinning circle. I had learned there was a windmill museum just a bit up the rural route in Kendallville, and I just had to check it out.
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It was the turn of the century and Americans had begun their love affair with the automobile. Henry Ford would introduce the concept of building cars on an assembly line in 1913, but there were thousands of small local builders across the country making “small batch” automobiles in a fashion not that different than today’s craft beer breweries. Continue reading “Northern Indiana – Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum”