I am planning trips for the summer. My husband and I already have a great trip planned for Mackinac where we will stay at the Grand Hotel and Small Point Cottage – can’t wait!!
Recent article on Mackinac Island:
http://www.cleveland.com/travel/index.ssf/2012/05/mackinac_island_puts_you_in_a.html
I definitely want to visit the Titanic Exhibit at the Henry Ford (even though I went twice when the exhibit came through Detroit a few years back, ha — I am fascinated by Titanic), and for tea at Cotswald Cottage in Greenfield Village. I really need to spend some time at the village — was looking into a membership today 🙂
Then I saw that there is a facebook page for the old Ohio State Reformatory which led me to the website:
http://www.ohiostatereformatory.org/
I am so excited because it is the prison where the movie The Shawshank Redemption was filmed. I love that movie! I thought they tore that old place down but it is still there and open for tours. I have to go there – it will be like a pilgrimage for me because I feel the movie saved my life 🙂 It isn’t very far away and I can even make a day trip. But I was also thinking of perhaps planning a camping trip down to Ohio, then on to Kentucky to the old haunted sanatorium:
http://therealwaverlyhills.com/
And perhaps with stops at Mammoth Caves — my parents took me when I was a kid and I would love to go back — and Big Bone Lick (always been fascinated by the name, ha), a Kentucky state park.
http://www.nps.gov/maca/index.htm
http://parks.ky.gov/parks/recreationparks/big-bone-lick/default.aspx
It would be an awesome camping trip!
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