Michigan recommendations

You might as well go up to St. Ignace, crossing the Mighty Mac and take a ferry trip out to the Island.

you know....for fudge.

I may lose my "Michigander" card for saying this, but Mackinac Island fudge is just about the most overrated thing in the state. Except maybe for Miller's burgers.....

I was kidding with the wife's family and said that Mackinac (which I pronounced mak i NAK) seems like a long way to go for fudge. They looked at me like I had just crapped the baptismal.

We are narrowing down the itinerary to 3 days in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti/Detroit area to see the Henry Ford, Greenfield village, and maybe a Tigers game. Then we are looking at a week in a cabin on one of the lakes. I would like to keep the cabin budget reasonable at around $1000 for a week for the wife, kids, and me. After that I will fly back to Texas and the girls will stay with family in Michigan for another week. We homeschool so we are really flexible with the kid's schedule and I am pretty flexible as long as I have a few months to schedule work.

If anyone has a specific recommendations for a nice cabin around that budget let me know.

This cabin fits the bill, and it's very close to Mackinac, situated on Lake huron. I haven't stayed there myself but it's definitely on my list. The Lake Michigan side near Traverse is nicer and full of more "stuff" to do for city types.

South Haven, Holland, Grand haven, Silver lake sand dunes, Sleep Bear Sand dunes, traverse city, Petoskey, Mackinaw, harbor springs etc. you really can't go wrong, just depends on how old kids are and what you are after. I'd spend some time in actual detroit too.

and yes the water tower in ypsilanti is phallic shaped.