Day 12 - Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village

Still hot. Drove back over the Canada/US border and found the Henry Ford, as it is called. Superlatives can abound here - this is a museum and living history area not to be missed! First we toured Greenfield Village which Henry Ford and subsequent generations built to display the houses, factories, other buildings and items he collected. For example, the Wright brothers home and the workshop where they built their first airplane in Dayton, Ohio, was moved here by Ford. Edison's workshop where he had his electrical production labs in Menlo Park, NJ, is also here, as is the retirement home of Daniel Webster and his wife originally in New Haven, CT, where he created his dictionary and other notable language works. It is an incredible place. We "lunched" at the Cotswold home, moved here stone by stone from Devonshire where there is a tea garden filled with flowers. We also rode on the train pulled by a real steam engine around the park.

After that we hurried to the museum (indoors) where incredible collections exist including a display of the development of automobiles from the beginning, some huge steam engines, an exhibit of clocks over the centuries and many other industrial revolution artifacts. Henry Ford was first and foremost an engineer, and the museum reflects this. We had tired feet by the end of this day!

Day 11- Detroit's Comerica Park

Memorial Day 2006. Very hot and humid again. We're getting a little used to it. From our campground in McGregor, Ontario (near Windsor), we crossed back over the Canada/US border and found our way in HEAVY traffic to Comerica Park to see the Detroit Tigers play the NY Yankees, a game the Tigers lost. The ballpark is wonderful - a new park that has all the bells and whistles. It reminded us in many ways of AT&T Park in San Francisco because of the good food options and the various attractions at the park. We spent some time in our seats and then wandered around and found a place overlooking the outfield where there was more breeze and watched the remaining part of the game there - good viewing area.

After the game we drove to an Ontario nature preserve and walked around, looking for the warblers that were there - as usual we could hear them but not see them. This area is a major flyway in the spring and fall, but, unlike the Audubon Society guides at Galveston last year who could see the eye color of these tiny warblers, we saw nothing. Oh well...... We also drove through Amherstburg, ON, a lovely town on the Detroit River near where it empties into Lake Erie.