Dale & Patti Schumacher's Travel Log: Frankenmuth MI - U.S. Bavaria

Frankenmuth MI was a great one day travel distance for us from Mackinac Island and the Upper Peninsula. But, the real reason we ventured through is the advice of a colleague, Diana Wozniak. Her husband Jim is from Michigan and has relatives not far from Frankenmuth. She suggested that because of Patti's love of the Christmas Season, she would love Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland, the world's largest Christmas Store - one and one-half football fields of retail Christmas shopping. Imagine it, they have it.

But, first we made a quick, 10 mile trip to Birch Run for Starbucks. (LOL) And, while we were in Birch Run someone asked us for directions to the Birch Run Premium Outlet Mall. We told them we were tourists and had no idea. Yep, you guessed it - we searched them out. And, after three quick stops for things we just couldn't live without, we headed back to Frankenmuth for the Bronner Experience.

Dale loves fried chicken and has been searching for chicken as good as his maternal grandmother made for a long time, to no avail. Well, in Frankenmuth, the Zehnder Family operates a restaurant that specializes in Fried Chicken Family Style Dinner's. Ate there this evening. Very good; but, Dale is still in search of Grandma's Fried Chicken.

Tomorrow is looking like another beautiful day, weather-wise. We're planning a fun day of cleaning, organizing and laundry. Oh well, real life has to be attended to from time to time. Then a couple of days travel time to Niagara Falls.

Life is good today...and every day.