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Minnesota's North Shore Minnesota’s North Shore, which runs along the northern banks of Lake Superior has more than it’s fair share of waterfalls, I think the state has about 200 of them. Upper Falls - Gooseberry Falls State Park The campgrounds in the State Parks here during the weekends are booked out months ahead as there aren’t many sites and unlike us, most people know when they want to go there. We had to book two different sites at Gooseberry State Park and the first one which we were supposed to be in for two nights was impossible to get into. The website had said it was alright for a 35’ fifth wheel, but the office had it down as only an RV site. When you are backing into a site, we are a lot longer than 35’ as our overall length is 52’, and even though Lindsay is a master backer, he just couldn’t get around a tree on the road in and the site number post at the edge of the driveway. Where would we go if they had no sites? We went back to the office and luckily...

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan 23 August 2016 Sleeping Bear Dunes lies on the western side of Michigan next to Michigan Lake and comprises of three areas, like it was an afterthought and they couldn't get all the land. The national parks campgrounds were fully booked out so I found a county campground in Empire that had sites nestled under the pine trees, it was so private we didn’t think there was anyone else there besides our immediate neighbour. Lake Michigan We got some ideas from the park visitor centre and our camp host as to the must do’s in the park. Most of the dunes are covered in vegetation The one way Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive has a number of spots to stop on the way, but really it’s nothing special and by the time we got to stop number 9, Lindsay didn’t want to stop any more. It turned out to be the main stop of course and we had to go back and do it again. Number 9 is the very steep sand dune that goes down to the water. There is...

 The Henry Ford, Dearborn Michigan 19-21 August 2016 We spent a couple of days visiting the factory, the museum and the living museum. The  Ford Rogue Factory Tour With some help from the technical magazines he read, Henry Ford worked on cars in his spare time. His first car was the Ford Quadricycle Runabout which he built in 1896 with the help of his like minded friends. The Ford Quadricycle in Henry's shed. He had to knock a hole in the wall to get it out as it didn't fit through the door . Henry’s vision was that he would make a car that everyone could afford that was robust and reliable. After his first company failed he rebuilt his reputation with a race car. Henry won the ten mile race at Grosse Pointe, Michigan in the 1901 Ford Sweepstakes race car. Henry's race car Model T In the beginning cars were made by craftsmen, a group of men would work on one part of the car and then move onto the next car. When Henry Ford first started ma...