Wednesday night we stayed with Evergreen B & B members Wieger and Coby De Jong in Straffordville, Ontario.  Wieger and I found that we shared an interest in history, archaeology, and geology and Joe loved his extensive model train layout in the basement.  Coby creates beautiful hand-quilted wall hangings and quilts and we enjoyed her dutch cooking specialties.

When we stopped at Stan Uhr's Restoration Shop yesterday, his mother, Jean, had the best Honey Cookies, a Czech recipe handed down from her Mother-in-law.  We have been eating Honey Cookies for the last 2 days from the "Brown Bag" she provided for our trip.  

Stan Uhr's Restoration sign in Blenheim, Ontario - clever!  

Stan's fun and funky vintage platform shoes - definitely not what you should wear to walk the Hershey fields!

Stan's Restoration was a "Step Back in Time" on the outside, but a top-notch restoration shop on the inside.

We traveled along through flat, rural countryside, wheat and corn and other crops I could not identify.  The wheat looked like it would make a good crop - already about 3 feet tall - and the corn had just come up.  The towns were for the most part small. 

Every once in a while we would spot a gas well or oil well.  We have seen them from PA all the way through Ontario. 

We drove along Lake Erie to Windsor, Ontario, where we spent the night with Evergreen B & B hosts, Sybren and Nina Reitsma.  The car caused a bit of commotion in the neighborhood and Sybren had arranged for a reporter to come out and film an interview for the local news that evening.  Thank goodness they talked with Joe!  After an enjoyable visit with the Reitsmas, we left EARLY (6 AM) this morning so that we would be able to get through Detroit early.  Since we were driving right downtown in a rough neighborhood, we wanted to be through the area before the drunks and anyone else was up and about.  We made it fine through Detroit to The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.  This was my first trip there and I highly recommend both if you haven't visited before.  

Joe and his goose friends at Greenfield Village.  He was feeding them sweet potato and the one goose really loved it.  The other was more discerning and liked corn chips.  Greenfield Village is has 7 historic districts including working farms, railroad, an incredible collection of old homes from simple cabin to much more prosperous.  Model T's drive people all over town, down Main Street, to the Henry Ford and Edison laboratories and on to the Wright Brother's Bicycle Shop where they used their understanding of bicycles and motion to create their famous plane that flew at Kitty Hawk.   

  
My favorite part of the day was The Henry Ford Museum and the most interesting thing, in my opinion, was the Dymaxion House created in 1946 as a home of the future.  It was made of aluminum, made in the round, was to be mass-produced in factories equipped for war-time production of airplanes.  They only made 2 prototypes and the only one still existing in the museum.  I want it !!! I think it would make a magnificent guest house in my back field. The neighbors would probably think the Martians had landed.

Photo of the living room and dining room area of the Dymaxion House.  It was really laid out nicely.

Concord Stagecoach made in 1865 in New Hampshire was well suited to travel on rugged terrain, durable and relatively "comfortable".

Texaco oil transport truck from the 1950's.  Really cool.