Tagged With "Michigan"

I haven't been on this one, but I have gone to a few, including Empire State and the old World Trade Center in NY. I always enjoy the view, but if there's an open observation area, I find myself with small chills and odd feelings in my legs as if I were going to fall...no matter how secure it is! So for me, it's the view plus a thrill ride!

I've been to the Hancock tower in Chicago, but not the Sears tower (I like that name better to). The views sure are spectacular. As for me, I'll admire the view without going into the skybox, thank you very much!

Like the monolith in Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s monumental film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, “Cloud Gate” looks like an alien object dropped onto a terrestrial landscape (not the African Savannah, but rather into...

A visit to Chicago's tallest building, with its spectacular new glass features, with Samantha.

And we have a winner! Port Moresby correctly identified Gumbo as visiting the Michigan Ave. Bridge in Milwaukee WI. Last summer I went to Milwaukee to visit one of my daughters. While there we took a cruise on the Milwaukee River and out onto Lake...

Samantha and her husband found another unique hotdog stand on a recent trip to Mackinaw City, Michigan.

Another stop on Samantha's odyssey to collect photos of every state's welcome sign.

Samantha shares pictures of the historic Fox Theatre in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.

While in the Ann Arbor area, Samantha and her husband made a quick stop to see a small section of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus.

Samantha and her husband shares pictures from the Ohio state line, as they continue their quest to visit every state

Toledo in Ohio is an interesting story. If I recall a program I once saw on how state lines were determined, Toledo was in Michigan territory but that was contested by Ohio. After a bloodless skirmish between the two, a deal was struck where Ohio got Toledo and Michigan was given most of the Upper Peninsula (The Mitten). Who got the best deal?

The Mackinaw Bridge is currently the fifth-longest suspension bridge in the world and the longest bridge in the western hemisphere. Samantha shares her visit and some facts.

DrFumblefinger visits the historic Grosse Pointe Lighthouse, located on the shore of Lake Michigan just north of Chicago.

The Whitefish Point area, known as Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast, has more than 200 shipwrecks lying nearby. Samantha shares some pictures from her visit.