Thanksgiving Up North

Here's a Dixie Highway sign near Cincinnati.

We had fun visiting family and friends up north this week in Toledo, Ohio. It was 25° F when we left this morning, and we're so glad to be heading south.

Heading North on the Dixie Highway

We headed north on I-75 to visit family in Tennessee this week.

An Old Dixie Highway sign in Atlanta.


Smooth sailing through traffic in Atlanta.


Crossing the Georgia/Tennessee border in Chattanooga.


Driving through the mountains along 68 on the way to Crossville, TN.

The trip south on the Dixie Highway

We'll be taking I-75 all the way from Michigan to our new hometown in Florida. We left a little late today, but traffic was light and we were able to make good time. We're almost to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Makes me think of Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam doing a "Gone with the Wind" type episode. Bugs Bunny says "General Suh, the Yankees are in Chattanooga!" Sam says "What!!! The Yankees are in Chattanoogee?!!!"

House Hunting Along the Dixie Highway

We were at the Florida end of the Dixie Highway (I-75) this weekend house hunting. We took advantage of off-season airfare. The housing market in Florida is as slow as in the Midwest. That helps even the playing field for us. We were able to narrow down price ranges and what areas that we liked. There was one house that we would have put an offer on if our house were sold. On our next trip we'll look at different types of property such as condos and townhouses instead of single family houses.

We stayed with Grandma Apple and had a good time. The weather was great. I was in shorts. (When we left Detroit it was snowing.) It was nice to sit on a veranda by the beach and watch the world go by.

Where is the Dixie Highway?

A road sign along M-125 (S. Dixie Hwy.) in Michigan.

I've been searching for roads named Dixie Highway on map web sites. Tonight I took a virtual trip from North to South down the Dixie Highway. I think that all that remains of the Dixie Highway is on local road signs. There were so many roads called Dixie Highway at one time or another that it can get confusing. Some of them run parallel. Maybe one road is older than the other and the new road is adopted as the latest Dixie Highway. There are also roads called "Old Dixie Highway." Most of them run nearly parallel to Interstate 75.

American Flag on S. Dixie Hwy.

This house was painted with a mural of the American flag shortly after 9-11-01. It is on S. Dixie Highway in Monroe County, Michigan.

Life on the Dixie Highway

Life is a highway. This blog shares my journey. I've spent a lot of time traveling along different routes along the Dixie Highway, which is a series of interconnected roads connecting Florida to the Midwest.

We took this photo on a trip to northern Michigan via I-75. Interstate 75 runs from Miami, Florida all the way up to Sault St. Marie, Michigan. The shores of Lake Superior (called Gitche Gumee by the Indians) are the land of Hiawatha.

Here are some of the places we visited:

• Indian River
• Cross in the Woods
• Legs Inn in Cross Village
• Tahquanamon Falls in Paradise, Michigan
• Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point
• The Soo Locks in Sault St. Marie