The House on the Rock – The Nexus of the Bizarre and Absurd

…It’s a museum absent of context. It does little to explain the who, what, where, when and why of anything. It is what it is and it doesn’t care what anyone thinks. It exists simply because it can.

It is the best damn road stop attraction I have ever been to. Point. Blank.

Roadside Stops – Lakenland Junkyard Art – Marquette County, MI

When one hears “Junkyard Art” and tries to imagine what that would be, they might be thinking it’s kind of… junky.  Pieces of metal and glass strewn about in nonsensical patterns with the descriptor “art” being used as loosely as it possibly can. That is not Lakenland.  Lakenland is, far and away, one of the…

Day 3 – Marquette, MI Lower Ore Dock and The Fog

On my 3rd morning in Marquette I did something similar to the second morning and I got up really early, but not as early as the day prior. I was packing up and getting ready for checkout around 5:30am when I get a bill under my door. This is a problem because I already paid…

Day 1 – Marquette, MI Lower Ore Dock

In my previous post I went into some detail about iron ore docks located on Lake Superior.  I wanted to see one in Ashland, WI with the only problem being the first time I ever visited Ashland was in 2015… two years after they tore down their lone standing ore dock. When planning a road…