Port Huron Stop

 

On our monthly run over to the US to get the allergy shot we decided to just go by car and stay at a hotel in Port Huron as we hadn't done that before. We drove the uneventful 300 miles and got the shot Mt. Clemens and then came back to the Doubletree Inn just under the Blue Water Bridge.

 

The view below is from the front of the hotel and the view of the river and bridge are really neat. Just to the left in the picture is the restaurant we ate in later that night.

 

Also right in front of the hotel by the river is this historic train station which occupies the former site where Thomas A. Edison lived as a boy and started his experimentation. The sign gives a pretty good description of his younger years and how he paid for some of the chemicals and equipment as a boy.

Here is the statue of young "Al" with his box of confections to sell on the train to Detroit.

Speaking of confections we ate that evening in the Freighter's Eatery and Tap Room which is attached to the hotel. In front of Jo-Anne is their wild mushroom truffle mac and cheese. This thing had Portobello, crimini, and button mushers, with a five cheese blend, cheddar bread crumbs, and a fried parmesan wedge ... wow ... oh yeah, it also had some macaroni in there to keep it all together.

For my snack I had their salmon with shrimp. The shrimp were grilled in garlic and the whole thing was covered with asparagus, melted jack cheese, and a lobster sauce, over a bed of Traverse City cherry rice. And we watched the sun set and highlight the bridge and the boats on the river.

The next morning after a leisurely free breakfast in the same restaurant we packed up and came home.

Along the way this is the typical scene for western Ontario with the mustard or rape seed hurting your eyes with its color and the always present wind turbines which will keep Canada totally independent of any need for power in the future.