Our first stop was a 2 night stay just outside of Detroit, Michigan. Our main point for this stop was the Ford Museum and factory tour.
Night one after a long travel day from Western New York found us setting up camp at the Wayne County Fairgrounds and heading out for some Detroit Style Pizza at Buddy’s. Our favorite pizza reviewer Dave Portnoy gave it a 7.6 which we thought was very generous. It was ok, but not our favorite. We just really like NY and Philly pizza you fold in half to eat. Next up was the Bumpy Cake. Our youngest and resident chocolate connoisseur said “it’s like a giant tastycake”… but when traveling, trying the local favorites is a must.
Day two we headed to The Henry Ford. We spent the entire day there exploring The Henry Ford Museum of Innovation, The Ford Rogue Factory Tour, and Greenfield Village. Wow! What a cool day and given we have owned 3 Ford vehicles including the F250 that pulls our home on wheels and Pam’s dad has spent well over over a decade traveling around in his own 1930 Ford Model A, this was a hit for all of us. The museum was filled with amazing history at every turn from presidential motorcades to campers, to racing, to planes, to locomotives, to roadside hotels and McDonalds… there was so much to see. The boys even did a racing simulator and I think they will all tell you racing is not as easy as it looks.
Next we headed to the Rouge Factory Tour where we saw the F150 line running. It was amazing to see. The line is 4 miles long and so many UAW workers at every step of putting these trucks together. No photography is permitted on the tour, so we spent plenty of time soaking it all in.
Our last stop of the day was Greenfield Village which is an 80 acre open air outdoor museum that features over 100 relocated historic buildings. While there the kids road a vintage 1913 carousel, we all enjoyed a ride around the village in a Ford Model T and we rode on a Steam Locomotive.
Before heading back to our campsite to check on Charlie Girl, we headed into downtown Detroit to stop at Lafayette Coney Island for their famous Coney Island Hotdogs. Decent stop, but if you follow our travels, you know our hearts belong with a shop from Pam’s parents hometown and their own version of a Coney Island dog called The Dallas… at least 4 out of 5 of us agree.
Tomorrow we head north.