We'll be leaving from our home on July
25. I hope to be on the road by 8:00 am at the latest. The first five
days of our trip will be spent getting to our first “real”
destination, Glacier National Park.
I decided to break the drive up over
five days, instead of four, to allow us to make a couple of little
detours and stops along the way, at various points of interest.
Day one will simply be a marathon
drive, covering approximately 567 miles. Hopefully, we'll be able to
do it in roughly 9 hours, but construction delays and stop time may
dictate othewise.
Day two takes us from Perrysburg, Ohio
to Alma Center, Wisconsin. We'll be traveling through Chicago,
Illinois on the way, but we don't have any plans to stop. Of course,
the draw of Chicago style pizza for lunch, may be too much to
overcome.
One of the by-products of our travels
over the years, is that Josh is well on his way to having visited all
50 U.S. states. Michigan is one that is missing from his list, and
since we're going to be driving just a few miles South of the
Michigan/Indiana border, we plan to take a little detour into
Michigan, so that we can add it to Josh's list of states visited. We
have two options for this, one which will just take us a couple of
miles into Michigan for a short drive, or the second which will take
us through the cities of Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, however, this
option adds about 60 miles to our drive for the day. We'll probably
decide along the way which option to take.
Today's drive is approximately 532
miles, if we take the shorter option through Michigan. We'll be
spending the night near Alma Center, Wisconsin. Like Perrysburg,
Ohio, there really doesn't seem to be anything at all interesting
about Alma Center, WI, although from the sign, it's apparently the strawberry capital of Wisconsin! We'll just spend the night and head out
first thing the next morning.
Next up, days 3 and 4.
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