About a decade ago, while traveling north along US 23 toward Cheboygan, I came across these cottages.
About a decade ago, while traveling north along US Route 23 toward Cheboygan, Michigan, during a winter circuit of Lake Huron lighthouses, I came across this row of small vacation cottages set back from the road. Snow had settled around the buildings, and the off-season quiet gave them a closed, provisional feel.
I never uncovered a formal history for the structures, though a few appeared to be maintained only enough for light storage or occasional use. Their scale and spacing recalled similar tourist cabins I had encountered years earlier in West Virginia: simple, utilitarian buildings shaped more by seasonal patterns and highway travel than by permanence.
Years ago, before we became a super highway nation the were cottages and motels everywhere. But now that has changed. Large modern hotels , nice, but costly. Picnic areas on the sides of the road. Travel was an adventure now different