Au Gres, MI

The reason why I choose this topic is because I fell in love with Michigan as a young child.  Michigan offers many unique landscapes along with four seasons. In Michigan you are able to see the sunrise and sunsets in many different cities.   Michigan also has the Five Great Lakes.  Michigan also has an outrages number of inland lakes.  Not many people are lucky enough to live around so much water.  I grew up being the only child for five years.  Yes, you can say I was spoiled.   I was lucky enough to go on my first camping trip when I was 4 months old. 

I have been fortunate enough to visit these amazing places in Michigan.  Detroit, Au Gres, Tawas, Gaylord, Linwood, Haughton Lake, Higgins Lake, Midland, Mackinaw, Mackinaw Island, Traverse City, Boyne, Grand Rapids, Lake Leelenau, Rifle River, Flint, Frankenmuth, Muskegon, Sand Dunes, and Empire.

When the day came that I wasn’t the only child or grandchild anymore.  My grandma decided she wanted a place for all her grandkids to grow up enjoying.  She wanted us to be living “the up north life”.  Since I was able to travel so many different place in Michigan as a young child.  I always wondered how you could ever just pick one place to have a cabin in Michigan.  My grandma decided to pick Au Gres.  She had to consider many different factors.  She didn’t want the distance to travel from home to the cabin to be too long of a drive.  She knew that she would have really young grandkids traveling with her often.  She also wanted room for her little grandkids to be able to crawl around. 

My first impression of my grandma’s cabin was, this looks like a little junkie hut.  As I approached the cabin I thought, man this place is scary.  There’s more cobwebs on this place then there is on a haunted house.  As we walked through the tornado construction zone, I realized someday the cabin would be the perfect up north getaway.  As we strolled through the cabin I looked out the back window and saw crisp bright blue.  I thought to myself… could that be water?  As I approached the windows I realized not only did my grandma’s cabin have a beach, but the cabin was right on the water.  The view took my breath away. I have never seen something so beautiful in my life.