Okay, this might be a bit spontaneous but what the hell. On Sunday Grant I we’re running an errand in Detroit. After we’d run the errand it was sunny and maybe a hint warm although I dare say it was warm for February in Michigan. (Okay stop right there. I know what your think and I’m not saying it was warm. Honestly I froze my butt off but the sun felt nice.)
We started by just kinda driving around downtown. We passed LCA (Little Caesar’s Arena) then went through Campus Martius before winding up by the Renaissance Center. Kinda out of the blue Grant asks if I wanna explore the waterfront more. Sure, why not. I’ve been on the Canadian side a million times. There is tons of parking and a great boardwalk but never the Detroit side.
This started us on an adventure. Do you how hard it is to find a place to park along the Detroit River front? That isn’t event priced parking, sheesh! No wonder I always went to the Canadian side. We didn’t give up though; it’s not our style. After a while we saw families walking around and a parking lot.
They actually have a park/harbor and free parking for two hours to enjoy the park! It felt like a miracle! Grant and I parked the civic and got out of the car to explore. They have this really cute pavilion with a carousel and concessions stand plus bathrooms. It was closed for the winter but the bathrooms were still open.
If you walked away from the parking lot toward the city you were able to get a pretty good view of both Windsor and Detroit with the bridge connecting the two cities. I took a million pictures and enjoyed seeing the sun in the background of the pictures.
After we looked over the waterfront for a few minutes we decided to walk in the other direction. This is actually a pretty cool park. It has wetlands and a historical dry dock.
We are walking along the path when we see a lighthouse and aren’t quite sure how far it so we decided to start walking and see how far we could get before we got too chilly and had to turn back. We follow the path and go along the street for a minute or two because there is in inlet and no bridge.
We’re starting to get pretty chilly but the lighthouse is right in front of us so we keep going. We make it to as close to the light house as possible on our side and grabbed a million pictures. We did see a bit of a daredevil stunt with two people walking on the ice but I’m not going to attempt to do that. No death defying stunts on this adventure.
Once we are done taking pictures we started the walk back to the car. I decided I wanted to cut through the grass by the inlet and thought, “that’s a statute you should be able to see” so we did. That’s actually when we learned that this was a historical dry dock for Detroit. It was kinda cool to be able to see the plaque and embrace the history.
After that we were officially freezing and the sun was setting on us. We hustled our butts back to the civic to blast the heat! (Had we known we were going to go exploring I’d have worn a thicker coat and grant would’ve worn his jeans instead of shorts, but hey lessons learned.) I’ve never been as happy as I was in that minute when the heat poured out of the vents and I could feel my face again. I admit Michigan may have impressed me with this one I’d highly recommend checking it out.
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