Finding Fun in Michigan's Thumb
While railroads had been in service for much of the major cities in southern Michigan, excursion steamships were still a comfortable and viable option to get to Michigan’s northern resort areas. You could board a ship on a Friday evening, have dinner on board, and arrive in north Michigan the next morning.
In Part One of our Michigan Day Trip Around the Thumb we traveled from Port Huron up the eastern shore of Lake Huron to the tip of the Thumb. Our starting point for the second half of our adventure is in Grindstone City. We will begin heading west along Saginaw Bay’s shore of sugar sand beaches and interesting coastal towns and villages. I hope you brought your bathing suit because this side of the Thumb offers some of the best swimming beaches in Michigan.
If you have been housebound for the past 40 days I would like to offer you some potential ideas to explore and take that outdoor walk. Especially as the weather improves. Officially we are still under the executive orders for Stay Home, Stay Safe. However, this does not prevent a person or immediate family that is currently in the same household from engaging in outdoor activities like walking, hiking, running, biking. There is no better place to do that, using safe distance practices, then in Michigan’s Thumb.
Gretchen Whitmer’s order to “Stay Home, Stay Safe” is a Michigan shutdown of the nonessential business due to the coronavirus outbreak. This was done once before by Michigan governor Albert Sleeper in October 1918.