Traveling: Canada & USA 2017

Saturday 7 October 2017

Canada & USA 2017 - Part 17

The Henry Ford Museum

Wednesday - September 26th 2017

Our road trip was coming to an end, and so today we were returning to Detroit. After we checked out, we headed to Whole Foods for breakfast and then we hit the road towards the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. Traffic wasn't very bad and soon we arrived at the museum. The museum was huge and we enjoyed every minute there, because it was not only about the Ford Motor Company, it was more about cars in general and how they changed the way of living in the US. One of the main exhibition pieces was the original bus on which Rosa Parks didn't get up from her seat and sparked the civil rights moviement. Our highlight was the old diner from the 1950s in the middle of the museum and of course we had to get a coffee there.

The Henry Ford Museum

Rosa Parks Bus

The Henry Ford Museum

Around noon we made it through the museum and ate our lunch we brought along from Whole Foods in the beautiful park next to the musuem. The Henry Ford consists not only of the museum itself but also of the outdoor museum called Greenfield Village. We only had tickets for the museum and so after we finished our lunch, we drove to the MGM Grand Detroit, our last hotel in the US. Since our room wasn't ready yet, we got some drinks at the casino bar. A couple of drinks later we finally were able to check in and we got a very pretty and spacious room on the 13th floor. Before we got to gamble in the casino, we walked to PJ's Lager House, which was located just a few minutes away from the hotel. The rest of the evening we spent in the casino gambling and enjoying some beers at the bar.