7/24/2010
The big summer trip finally arrived. Mission: Conquer Michigan’s Lower Peninsula in three days. (Whose freaky idea was it to split Michigan into two chunks anyway?)
We started off by driving four hours to Ann Arbor. A fairly uneventful trip, except while Laura was scanning through radio stations over and over and over and over and over again we stumbled onto a folk station where the DJ was waxing poetically about Bill Monroe. He’s everywhere, man.
Dark clouds and drizzle greeted us in Ann Arbor, but we had a singular objective – the Original Ann Arbor Street Art Fair. It’s called the “original” because three other art fairs go on at the same time. The more the merrier, I guess. Kind of confusing at first glance, but once you get there a color-coded map makes it easy to get around.
We circumnavigated the fair in about an hour. That was enough for us. A “look at the monkey” situation, which isn’t a criticism. Some of the art was interesting or at least demented (like a head with lots of little heads climbing out of it). We had to pay $10 to park, but there was no charge for the fair itself, so it’s not a bad deal.
(Parking tip: Park in the University of Michigan lot on Thayer and Washington. Its within a few feet of the fair and the private lots around town were charging as high as $20 and were not nearly as close.)
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