Comments on: Day 11: Wailing Man http://www.wirelesstrips.com/day-11-wailing-man Is it possible to live on the road for weeks at a time in an RV when your lives depend on high-speed Internet access? That's the question we intend to answer. This blog is a chronicle of the adventures of keeping our Internet business and family life running while on the road. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:34:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Teresa sadowski http://www.wirelesstrips.com/day-11-wailing-man#comment-68 Teresa sadowski Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:51:31 +0000 /?p=187#comment-68 Hi As a school child in the Detroit area, I cannot even begin to tell you how many field trips I've taken to Greenfield village and the Henry Ford Museum. We make a yearly pilgrimage to Michigan and last year I took my kids there for the second time. I was shocked to see the village paved with curb stones. It use to look quite quaint when I was a kid with dirt roads. It looked to me as if they had picked it up and placed it in the middle of any Detroit suburb. When I got home I immediately sent them a letter letting them know my dissapointment. I have lived in Massachusetts for over 20 years now and have learned more about older home preservation than I ever imagined I would (mostly on school field trips). Greenfield Village never responded. Obviously they did not consult the right curators or historians when they made the decision to pave. This year we did go through Frankenmuth on our way up north to visit relatives. My youngest thought it looked like something at Disney World. Although still cute, Frankenmuth has become much more commercialized. We were there in the morning so it was too early for Chicken but we had a great kilbasa breakfast and purchased some excellent sausage and cheese. To me Detroit was a great city, I really do not think it will ever come back. We drove past my old neighborhood and it looked like a war zone. It made me very sad. When we are in MI we like spend most of our time on Lake St. Clair in the thumb area. Outside of the metro area though Michigan is a beautiful state. Actually very rural and not nearly as crowded with tourists as Maine or New Hampshire. Teresa Hi
As a school child in the Detroit area, I cannot even begin to tell you how many field trips I’ve taken to Greenfield village and the Henry Ford Museum. We make a yearly pilgrimage to Michigan and last year I took my kids there for the second time. I was shocked to see the village paved with curb stones. It use to look quite quaint when I was a kid with dirt roads. It looked to me as if they had picked it up and placed it in the middle of any Detroit suburb. When I got home I immediately sent them a letter letting them know my dissapointment. I have lived in Massachusetts for over 20 years now and have learned more about older home preservation than I ever imagined I would (mostly on school field trips). Greenfield Village never responded. Obviously they did not consult the right curators or historians when they made the decision to pave.
This year we did go through Frankenmuth on our way up north to visit relatives. My youngest thought it looked like something at Disney World. Although still cute, Frankenmuth has become much more commercialized. We were there in the morning so it was too early for Chicken but we had a great kilbasa breakfast and purchased some excellent sausage and cheese.
To me Detroit was a great city, I really do not think it will ever come back. We drove past my old neighborhood and it looked like a war zone. It made me very sad. When we are in MI we like spend most of our time on Lake St. Clair in the thumb area. Outside of the metro area though Michigan is a beautiful state. Actually very rural and not nearly as crowded with tourists as Maine or New Hampshire.

Teresa

]]> By: Amy Hoover http://www.wirelesstrips.com/day-11-wailing-man#comment-60 Amy Hoover Thu, 01 Sep 2005 02:23:46 +0000 /?p=187#comment-60 Hi Angela, Growing up in the Metro Detroit area, I'd have to agree with your comments on the city itself. But there are some amazing buildings and history in downtown Detroit that still exist and the metro area is much more inviting. I find myself moving away for years but something still draws me back. It's not beautiful like Maine, but Plymouth, Northville and Ann Arbor are all wonderful, quaint areas with great historic downtowns. If you're ever back in the area, give it another try. It's a great place to visit in the fall. Happy trails! -Amy Hoover Hi Angela, Growing up in the Metro Detroit area, I’d have to agree with your comments on the city itself. But there are some amazing buildings and history in downtown Detroit that still exist and the metro area is much more inviting. I find myself moving away for years but something still draws me back. It’s not beautiful like Maine, but Plymouth, Northville and Ann Arbor are all wonderful, quaint areas with great historic downtowns. If you’re ever back in the area, give it another try. It’s a great place to visit in the fall. Happy trails!
-Amy Hoover

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