Top 10 Best Places to Visit in Michigan
Top 10 Best Places to Visit in Michigan
Why visit Michigan? In two words: diverse beauty. Michigan’s extraordinarily beautiful places range from beaches and sand dunes, to forests and farm lands, to tens of thousands of lakes, some of which contain islands where horses and bicycles are the only means of transportation. In fact, in Michigan, you are never more than a few hours from a Great Lake, of which the state has four. Apple trees, blueberry farms, and cherry festivals are notorious in Michigan.
Now that I've whet your appetite, let me give you a few specific places in Michigan that you'll absolutely want to go visit. Whether you've been to Michigan before or are thinking about taking a trip for the first time, you won't want to miss these incredible spots.
#1.Mackinac Island
#2.Marquette
#3.Detroit
#4.Frankenmuth
#5.Munising and the Pictured Rocks National Seashore
#6.Sleeping Bear National Dunes Lakeshore, Glen Arbor
#7.Ann Arbor
#8.Muskegon
#9.Petoskey
#10.Isle Royal National Park
Chicago, Illinois Travel Guide - Must-See Attractions
Chicago is a city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is the third most populous city in the United States, and the most populous city in the American Midwest. Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed.
The most important places to visit in Chicago are: Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower, this iconic symbol of Chicago was the world's tallest building when it was built), Millennium Park (a great urban park, among the most famous landmarks of Chicago and a site for many major city events), Shedd Aquarium (one of the world's largest aquariums. It displays an impressive array of animals), Grant Park (called the front lawn of Chicago, the park is wonderfully landscaped and offers many sites for an urban escape), Navy Pier (situated right on Lake Michigan, the Pier has a festive atmosphere with entertainment, shops and restaurants) and many more.
If you want to save time and money, the most important Chicago travel tip is to compare prices before booking a hotel room or a flight. You can do this for free on a site that searches through hundreds of other travel websites in real time for the best travel deals available.
Top 10 most secluded towns in the United States. The viewer version.
Top 10 most secluded towns in the United States. The viewer version. We have a great list by the subscribers for you. This list has towns in Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho to name a view.
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USA Road Trip in the Midwest | Driving from North Dakota to Michigan
Come join us for a family USA road trip as we showcase our journey driving from North Dakota to Michigan in this travel vlog. We start things off in Alberta, Canada crossing into the province of Saskatchewan and then heading south towards North Dakota. Our border crossing from Canada to USA was an absolute breeze as we were the only person in line at the border and the border control officer was very friendly.
After a long day of driving we checked into a cheap motel Super 8 in Williston, North Dakota. The following day we drove the width of North Dakota and entered into the state of Minnesota. The scenery changed from mostly farmland to more trees and lakes. Our final stop on day number two was in Alexandria, Minnesota where we stayed in another cheap motel.
After having a couple of very mediocre stays in motels we decided we'd go for an airbnb for our third night of the road trip. On day three we drove across Minnesota and crossed into Wisconsin where we stayed the night in a house in Racine.
The following day, our final day of the road trip saw us crossing more states than any other day on this trip. We stared off in Wisconsin and touched down briefly in Illinois and Indiana before spending the rest of our journey in Michigan. We came back into Canada through Sarnia at the border between Michigan and Ontario.
This border crossing was much more active than the first one but it still didn't take us long to get through. With just a few hours left we finished off by driving back home to Brampton.
Overall, it was a fantastic 14 day road trip and we covered over 9000 kilometres (5600 miles) with all of the sightseeing including for the return trip to Alberta and back home.
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USA Road Trip Vlog | Driving from North Dakota to Michigan Video Transcript:
How are you all doing today? Well, I'll tell you here we are. Here we are.
I'll tell you what we're going to be doing. We have got a very long road trip (USA road trip). We drove all of the way out west from Ontario to British Columbia. Mmhmm. Now we're heading back home but instead of going back through Canada we've decided to go through the USA. Yes. Yeah. We thought we might enjoy a little change of scenery. Mmmhmm.
You know, see something different. Yep. And also like driving through the Prairies on the way to BC it felt a bit long. Yep. So thought let's see something new, something different. It is still going to take us four days but the journey is a little shorter just by a few hours. Yeah. So yeah we're going to bring you along on this little road trip. Right now we're having a little snack. Some Timmies. Our last Tim Hortons before leaving Canada. Yeah, we'll be crossing the border in Saskatchewan very soon. So exciting times.
We spent most of the day driving in Canada. We did. Who knew the border was so far away. And we crossed in through Saskatchewan. The Province of Saskatchewan into North Dakota. Yeah. And we were the only people at the border. The only people there. The border security guard was really friendly. He did his job he asked us a lot of questions but in a friendly way. Yes. And he liked the dog even though Togo barked at him. It is even what surprised me was when we arrived in North Dakota it was even quieter than Saskatchewan which is a pretty quiet province in Canada. It is very peaceful. Let's hope we get a good nights rest.
Now that we're in Michigan it is a lot more reasonable and we're heading up north. We had the option of going through Detroit but we're going to go through and cross through Sarnia into Ontario. Yeah. We're thinking there will be less traffic. And the dog is thrilled to be out going for a walk at the moment. Stretching our legs. Look at how green it is. It is nice here.
We're back in Canada!
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DIY Destinations - Detroit Budget Travel Show | Full Episode
DIY Destinations - Detroit featuring the best of what it has to offer. The episodes showcase all the must-see free and many off the beaten path attractions including: GM Renaissance Center, Lincoln Street Art Park, Detroit International Riverfront, Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit Historical Museum, African Bead Museum, and more. It also feature many of the homegrown activities such as the sport of fowling and Slow Roll, and checking out the homegrown hip pop scene and New Dodge Lounge, many of the DIY projects like Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI). Not to mention, amazing original Detroit food the Coney Islands and vegetarian dining at Seva Detroit.
Produced by Charles Huang and Kai Mathias, camera by Stan Trac and co-hosted by Sarah S. and Sara Love.
York, Pennsylvania (Photo Tour)
York is a marvelously intact and well-preserved historic city, which seems to have escaped the urban renewal era unscathed. It is also one of the more significant small cities in America, having served as capital of the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War. Between 1800-1840, it ranked within the 100 most populous urban centers in the United States. There is a great collection of colonial and Victorian architecture in the city, and most of it appears to be beautifully maintained.
California
Join political officer Mark Bosse on a virtual donkey ride through his home state of California, find out why it is called the Golden State and who Queen Califa was. #50states #CA
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I'm here to talk you about my home state of California, the most populous state in the United States of America.
I was born and raised in Orange County, just south of Los Angeles in southern California.
Orange County is famous for the TV show The O.C., which was filmed here, its beautiful beaches, and of course, Disneyland. When my parents moved to California from the state of Nebraska in the 1950s, much of the state was still orange trees and scrub brush. Today California boasts the world's sixth largest economy and is home to some of the world's leading companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Pixar, as well as famous sports teams such as the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Diego Chargers.
And of course there's Hollywood, which serves as one of the iconic creators and sellers of the California culture. If you go to Hollywood, you might even run into a fellow Austrian!
(pictures of Christoph Waltz, Arnold, Fred Astaire (walk of fame star), Marlene Dietrich (walk of fame star)).
The name California comes from the mythical Spanish queen Califa, who was featured in a romance novel written around the time the first Spanish explorers came to California in the 1500s. The Spanish explorers originally thought that California was an island. They couldn't have been more wrong, but with the miles of rugged coastline and pristine beaches, it was an easy mistake to make!
Those Spanish explorers left California with more than its name. As I learned in grade school, most of the major cities in California, starting with San Diego and going all up through Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Monterrey, and San Francisco, had their humble beginnings as Spanish missions founded in the 17 and 1800's. Any Californian school kid can tell you that each major California city is one day's donkey ride from the next one. That's because the Spanish missionaries didn't want to spend more than one day on a donkey travelling from one mission to the next. Who can blame them! And believe me, in rush hour traffic in LA, riding a donkey doesn't seem like such a bad option.
California's nickname is the golden state, which many people believe comes from the endless days of perfect weather, but actually refers to California's experience during the gold rush era.
In 1849 gold was discovered in the hills outside of San Francisco. This brought waves of
treasure seekers from other parts of the United States, and from all over the world.
Though only a few got rich in the gold rush, it helped establish California as a destination for people seeking a new life and a new start. That tradition continues today, with California boasting large and vibrant immigrant communities from all over the world. This has earned California the nickname The melting pot within the melting pot.
Like many Californians, my roots come from other places. My great grandparents came from Germany to start a new life in America. When my father joined the U.S. Marine Corps and was stationed in southern California, he brought his new bride, my mother, with him. Their plans were to spend two years in California and then return home to Nebraska. Fifty-seven years, fourteen kids, and 33 grandkids later they are still living the California dream, the dream that still pulls thousands of new immigrants to California every year.
I hope you'll have the chance to visit California soon. If you do, I'm sure you'll have an
experience that is as unique as California itself. And be sure to keep your eye out for Queen Califa! Hasta pronto amigos, adios!
Chicago - City Video Guide
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DETROIT INDUSTRY MURALS – DIEGO RIVERA – CONTROVERSIAL TO EPIC
Detroit Industry Murals – Diego Rivera – from Controversial to Epic
One of the most amazing artistic treasures in Detroit – thanks to Diego Rivera - is the are the awe inspiring fresco murals known as Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
The year was 1932, America was in a deep depression and yet this came about due four men – William Valentiner, Edsel Ford and Diego Riversa – the world famous Mexican Muralist.
Rivera receives a commission to create a mural in the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center, New York. He journeys to New York from Detroit.Rivera has a brief affair with the American artist Louise Nevelson.By May the mural in the RCA Building is partially complete. The architects discover that the mural includes a portrait of Vladimir Lenin. They stop his work and remove his scaffolding. General Motors withdraw the commission they had given Rivera to paint a mural at the World's Fair in Chicago. Rivera returns to Mexico. 1932: Rivera receives commissions by the Institute of Art in Detroit, Michigan to create murals. He journeys there and creates a mural based upon the Ford Motor Company's Rouge River Automobile plant, the largest plant in the world at that time. Diego Rivera, detail from one of the frescoesEdsel Ford commissioned murals by Diego Rivera for DIA in 1932.[44][45] Composed in fresco style, the five sets of massive murals are known collectively as Detroit Industry, or Man and Machine.[46] The murals were added to a large central courtyard; it was roofed over when the work was executed. The Diego Rivera murals are widely regarded as great works of art and a unique feature of the museum.[47] Architect Henry Sheply, a close friend of Cret's would write: These [murals] are harsh in color, scale and composition. They were designed without the slightest thought given to the delicate architecture and ornament. They are quite simply a travesty in the name of art.[48] Their politically charged themes of proletariat struggle caused lasting friction between admirers and detractors.[49] During the McCarthy era, the murals survived only by means of a prominent sign which identified them as legitimate art; the sign further asserted unambiguously that the political motivations of the artist were detestable.[45] Today the murals are celebrated as one of the DIA's finest assets, and even one of America's most significant monuments.[50]DetroitWilliam Reihold ValentierFrom 1924-1945 he was appointed first advisor and then Director of the Detroit Museum of Art which later became the Detroit Institute of Arts. Under his leadership the museum developed into one of the leading art institutions in the country. His acquisitions and exhibitions in Detroit were products of his wide-ranging scholarship. He was a friend of Edsel Ford and conducted private seminars on the history of art for Ford's family. He was responsible for the series of murals painted by Diego Rivera, having met Rivera in California, and convinced Ford to under wright the cost of the murals. Titled Detroit Industry they were revolutionary for Detroit at the time and created considerable local controversy. His activities at the Detroit Institute of Arts included building an expert staff of curators, a vision of an encyclopedic collection and the creation of a resource for the local population. the state, and the Midwest. --------------During the Depression, they helped to pay the salaries of the professional staff of the Detroit Institute of Arts to avoid a shutdown.When William Valentiner, long-time director of the DIA, conceived the project of having artist Diego Rivera transform the DIA's inner court with fresco murals, Edsel Ford underwrote the costs. Edsel and Rivera formed a curious patron-artist relationship, with the communist Mexican artist finding a genuine admiration for Edsel's commitment to esthetics and design in his automotive industry. Rivera not only immortalized Edsel as patron in the murals, but his canvas portrait of Edsel shows him, then president of Ford Motor Company, before a triptych of the long blackboards used in the automotive design process. Upon these blackboards appears a sketch of the current design project, reminiscent of a 1932 Ford Coupe, which seems to spring from Edsel's mind. According to Valentiner's biographer, Rivera came to feel that Edsel, as a car designer, was fully qualified to be considered an artist in his own right.
The Detroit Industry fresco cycle was conceived by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886–1957) as a tribute to the city's manufacturing base and labor force of the 1930s. Rivera completed the twenty-seven panel work in eleven months, from April 1932 to March 1933. It is considered the finest example of Mexican mural art in the United States, and the artist thought it the best work of his career.
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Florida
Florida -- the Sunshine State, presented by Donna Eacho. Florida is home to one of the most famous amusement parks in the world, aka the happiest place on earth. #50states #FL
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Hi! My name is Donna Eacho, and I would like to tell you about my home state of
Florida—the Sunshine State!
Florida was the first part of the continental United States to be visited by Europeans, when the Spanish explorer, Ponce de Leon, arrived in 1513. He claimed the land for Spain and named it la Florida meaning land of flowers. In 1565, the Spanish founded the settlement of St. Augustine, the oldest permanent European settlement
in the United States. Florida became the 27th state of the union in 1845.
By 1900, Florida had a population of only half a million people, but a land rush in the 1920's --when my grandparents moved to the state—began an era of growth. Now,
Florida is the fourth most populated state in the country, with 19 million people.
Most of Florida is a peninsula situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico with its highest point being only 100 meters above sea level. We enjoy a sub‐tropical climate and almost 2000 kilometers of beaches. Historically, the Florida economy was based on agriculture, and Florida still produces the majority of the citrus, sweet corn and green beans in the country. Now the number one industry is tourism. People from all over the world flock to our beaches and amusement parks, especially to Walt Disney World. Located near Orlando, in central Florida, Disney World is the world's most visited entertainment resort with over 17 million visitors per year. Florida's amusement parks have certainly changed since my childhood!
Florida is also home to the Kennedy Space Center, the launch site for every United
States human space flight since 1968.
While the capital of Florida is Tallahassee, the largest metropolitan area is Miami. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Miami America's Cleanest City. Because of its large Hispanic population, Miami is nicknamed the Capital of Latin America. It is the second largest U.S. city with a Spanish‐speaking majority, and a rich cultural history from its large Cuban‐American population. Miami is also the number one cruise passenger port in the world. The trendy South Beach area of Miami is home to the 1940's Art Deco Historic District with over 800 historic buildings from the 1920's-1940s.
One of the most fascinating parts of the state is the Everglades, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. The Everglades boasts many rare and endangered species. It has been designated a World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve.
Florida is also home to the beautiful coral archipelago called the Florida Keys. Key West, the southernmost point in the continental United States, was the site of President Harry Truman's winter White House. It is also where authors Ernest Hemmingway and Tennessee Williams wrote some of their most famous works.
I hope you have enjoyed learning a little about my beautiful home state of Florida and that you will someday enjoy a sun filled holiday there.