Road trip around Lake Michigan
Our family visited Troy, MI to see my brother's family, my mom, and dad in June 2019. From there we had planned for a road trip around Lake Michigan. Since we are 7 adults and 3 young kids (1 yr, 2 yr and 5 yr old), who needed car seats, we rented a 12-seat passenger van for the trip. We bought snacks, packed basic Indian spices for cooking on our road trip. we had booked Airbnb houses/hotel rooms with a kitchen equipped with basic cooking utensils to cook the yummy and healthy Indian food. We had started our road trip on June 25, 2019, from Troy MI around 7 am. We had a nice 4-5 hour long countryside drive to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore , kids had fun watching and counting the number of cows, horses, alpacas on the way. On the National Lakeshore, Lake Michigan appeared like a giant sweet water ocean to us with clear see-through water. The weather was perfect to enjoy the view but the water was freezing cold to play. This place had numerous viewpoints but t