Summer Roadtrip 2018 - Museum of the Rockies

One of the last fun stops along our big road trip was a dinosaur museum.

We may have missed out on some great dinosaur fossils the day we tried to go to the Dickenson Dinosaur Museum in North Dakota, but the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana made up for it - big time! Big Mike was the full size T-Rex skeleton on display there and though some of the bones were reconstructed, most of it was real. They had a huge collection of Triceratops as well and numerous other dinosaur skeletons. It was amazing! 

We walked through a few other sections of the museum, watched a planetarium show and bought a few things in the gift shop before loading back up in the motorhome, getting back on highway 90 and driving west towards home.

Summer 2018 Roadtrip - Michigan

We left my aunts house mid day on August 7 and drove into Michigan. We wanted to travel a different route home and though going up and around Michigan would add time to our drive, we really wanted to see that part of the country, so we headed north. We didn't pass by much on that first days drive that we wanted to see more of. The bottom half of the state seemed pretty run down. Detroit was/is a mess. Dirty, falling apart and ugly. There were a few big old and beautiful churches we saw just off the freeway, but we drove straight through. We stayed the night at a shitty Thousand Trails RV park in Saint Clair. It was disappointing since we have had really great experiences at all the previous Thousand Trails places we had been to. We ate at dinner at a crappy restaurant and couldn't wait to get out of that area.
Early the next morning, we unhooked and took off. We drove through Flint, MI, stopped to get coffee and drove north towards The Mackinac Bridge.
We stopped for lunch in Saint Ignace, just over the bridge. After lunch, we strolled along the walkway along the water, walked out to the lighthouse, the kids got soaked playing in the splash pad play area and Ezra skipped rocks into Lake Huron.

Summer Roadtrip 2018 - Chicago*