We left Morehouse Lake at 8:45 Thursday morning and drove all day -- mostly in the rain. We reached Saginaw MI by 7 PM. Saginaw was a ghost town -- businesses boarded up, hotels closed. The Best Western where we had made a reservation was now something else. Wethought we were quite clever figuring it out. It took a while but we finally found something to eat.
Having spent so much time on the road on Thursday it left us with a lot of time for sightseeing today. We spent the morning on a tour of the Alden Dow House in Midland. Alden was the second son of Herbert H. Dow, the founder of Dow Chemical. He studied engineering, but switched to architecture and studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. The house, now owned by a Foundation set up by the family, was incredible. The setting alone was beyond beautiful. The house, built into a pond, had a "submarine room" with the windows right at the water level.
Midland had a nice (and prosperous looking)downtown and Main Street. We had lunch at a cool place then set out for Ludington, located on Lake Michigan. Father Marquette, the famous explorer died here. We had dinner downtown at the Jamesport Brewing Company -- motto Helping Michigan's economy one beer at a time. We did our share. A nice sunset walk along the marinas watching the Badger sail completed our evening.
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