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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Rob had some things on his personal bucket list to accomplish on this day. He wanted to find the house he grew up in in Lincoln Park and he wanted to go to Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. Doug and Marilyn were up for it. Carol Buote had wanted to go there for years and and it looked like much more fun when Doug and Rob were there. So the other two couples piled in the truck and we took the Corvette so we could do the house thing (revisit Rob's childhood home). After a long convoluted trip due to freeway construction, as in they tore up the whole freeway so you had to go around it and the GPS kept telling you to go back, we arrived at the Greenfield Village/Ford Museum complex. The village itself is over 90 acres and contains Henry Ford's original home, all of the buildings that Thomas Edison had his factory and workshops in, the original Wright Brothers Cycle shop in which they built their airplane, and hundreds of other things. Everything is kept in character and all the people wear clothes of the era and travel by horse or Model T. Leonard treated us all to a train ride around the whole village area and we all know that we need to go back again as we only saw a small fraction in 3 hours. We then proceeded to the Museum, where some of the cars were not on show due to construction. But again, there was more than enough to see, including the Presidential Limousines, huge train engines, various eras of airplanes. Again, worth a repeat visit, and we didn't even get to the Automotive Hall of Fame. Next time!!!

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