Fayette State Park, Michigan

Furnaces at Fayette

Yesterday, traveled from Montreal to Sudberry, Ontario, then today, we made it to upper Michigan. We’re staying the night in FayetteState Park, home to the historic townsite of Fayette. This was an iron smelter town from 1867 to 1890. Left on the grounds is the smelter, charcoal kilns, and some of the commercial and residential buildings of the company town of 500 people. It was a very different place to visit, a place to stop if you're nearby. The buildings are somewhat restored, usually a couple rooms in each building. They explained a lot about the original town, it’s inhabitants, and their work of restoring the town based on what they find on the grounds and buildings. 

Historic buildings of Fayette

We then headed to Appleton to visit my parents and see how they were doing. I got my perch dinner on the first night home and the next day we visited Door County and then had dinner with Bob and Cindy. 

Then off to Minneapolis to visit Laura and Greg. We worked on wedding plans, had a great dinner at  oriental restaurant and, of course, a Swedish breakfast on Sunday at the Taste of Scandinavia

We planned this trip, because we had always intended to revisit Nova Scotia after a short stay there a few years ago. A full week there was almost enough, if we had 2 more days we would have headed for the Northeast coast. We made use of it to visit friends and family along the way. We probably had too many long travel days - sometime, we've got to take a few months and just tour up and down the East Coast in a more leisurely manner.

If you'd like to see the video here on youtube.