Michigan to Indiana

We have left the Upper Peninsula and crossed the Mackinaw Bridge into “the other” Michigan. Stopped in Traverse City to begin our immersion back into citification. This area claims to be the Cherry capital of the world and based on the number of trees we see just from the roadside they have a lock on the title. Up until this point the number 1 roadside stand staple had been campfire wood but here everyone is selling cherries. Washed cherries, unwashed cherries, u pickem, we pickem, cherry pie, cherry jam, cherry jelly, cherry wine, even cherry BBQ ribs and on and on the topper was a matched set of cherry luggage. After two days there we continued south and stopped at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Visited the museum and took a bus tour of the track…really neat that Irene and I were the only passengers on a bus built for forty and the driver/guide really gave us a nice spiel on the track’s history.