Day one: Made it to Detroit for 2 days at the Henry Ford Museum

Thank you for checking out our travel blog to this country's great northwest!  You'll notice that since I didn't figure out how to start a new blog page, the posts from our southern route trip out west in 2017 are still on the blog. 
Today, it took us all but 11 hours and 543 miles to get to Detroit.  Although the trip was thankfully uneventful, it also was not very scenic.  After coming out of the fog around Harrisburg and the State College area, driving across north Ohio was not too inspiring.

But wait!  Vernon read on the map that if you get off Rt 80 and drive along Rt 2,  that's the 'scenic route'.  Nothing against Ohio but here is what they call scenic:

Toledo
The campground west of Detroit is nice.  We made dinner and ate at a picnic table overlooking a lake.  We got to see an osprey diving to catch a fish, a snake poking its head out of the water near us, and Vernon retrieving a dollar bill from the shore that I spotted.
We are looking forward to seeing what the New York Times calls "one of the world's coolest museums':  The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
Note to Owen (my grandson who will be 3 this month):  Grandpa Vernon and I drove past a big construction site where I took pictures of some very cool machines that I am looking forward to posting so that you will be able to see them. (The blog won't accept any more pictures right now for some reason)