{"id":19564,"date":"2022-12-04T04:18:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T10:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19564"},"modified":"2022-12-04T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T22:41:02","slug":"travelling-the-50-states-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/travelling-the-50-states-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling The 50 States \u2013 Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Over my 48 years, I\u2019ve done my fair share of travelling across these United States.\u00a0 I thought it would be an interesting experiment go look back at those trips to each of the 31 states I have visited (62% isn\u2019t bad, is it?) and see if, and when, I may be returning.\u00a0 Working in alphabetical order, we continue today with the 26th state to be added to the Union: Michigan<\/p>\n

State:<\/strong> Michigan
\nJoined the Union:<\/strong> 1837
\nVisits:<\/strong> 5<\/p>\n

Despite its proximity, The Mitten has been an infrequent place for me to visit.\u00a0 Nearly all of my visits can be attributed to one of two things: baseball and ice skating.\u00a0 The one outlier came during the COVID lockdown, when travel options were limited.<\/p>\n

My first trip to Michigan came in 1999 in an effort to see a game during the final season of Tiger Stadium.\u00a0 Along with my mom and my sister, we took the quick flight and then took a bus into Windsor for a pre-game meal, the first time any of us had left the country.\u00a0 After some slight difficulties getting back across the border, we headed to the game, where rookie Kip Wells made his major league debut for the White Sox and picked up the victory against the Tigers.\u00a0 We flew back home the following day.<\/p>\n

\"\"Nearly a decade later, I returned to Detroit in 2010 for a Labor Day weekend clash between the White Sox and the Tigers.\u00a0 This time, I booked a hotel in Windsor, so I drove from Chicago to Canada, checking in to the hotel before catching a bus back across the border and to Comerica Park.\u00a0 The next afternoon, I drove back and took in the afternoon tilt before driving home with two Tiger victories under my belt.<\/p>\n

\"\"Six years later, the synchronized skating championships were held in Kalamazoo.\u00a0 The family travelled north to see Angelina and her team compete.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2019, the family traveled to Ann Arbor, where BU was competing in a synchronized skating competition.<\/p>\n

\"\"My most recent visit to Michigan came over Labor Day week in 2020.\u00a0 With everything locked down thanks to the corona virus, I was looking for a chance to get away and found a nice Airbnb in Holland close to Lake Michigan.\u00a0 Other than a couple of trips to the lakes (both\u00a0Macatawa and Michigan) and a day spent in\u00a0Saugatuck, I didn\u2019t see much of the sites, as the rona was still very much a concern.<\/p>\n

Will I return?\u00a0 I imagine so.\u00a0 Neither of the boys have been to Comerica yet, so a future visit is not out of the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over my 48 years, I\u2019ve done my fair share of travelling across these United States.\u00a0 I thought it would be an interesting experiment go look back at those trips to each of the 31 states I have visited (62% isn\u2019t bad, is it?) and see if, and when, I may be returning.\u00a0 Working in alphabetical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3268],"tags":[6780,275,8110,603,8844,2286,801,9076,9077,3824,613,230,49],"class_list":["post-19564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-angela","tag-arm","tag-boston-university","tag-comerica-park","tag-corona-virus","tag-kip-wells","tag-labor-day","tag-lake-macatawa","tag-lake-michigan","tag-mom","tag-tiger-stadium","tag-tigers","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19652,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19564\/revisions\/19652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}