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start until a week or two after that.) When he found himself without any jobs pending, Pop would come home and announce, “We’re going to the cottage.” We would immediately begin load the trunk of the car with clothes and whatever else we thought we should to take. The next decision was whether to leave immediately and drive part way, spending the night at a motor hotel somewhere along the way, or to wait until morning and get an early start on the 12–14-hour trip from Cleveland to the U.P.
In the days before the Interstate highway system, the first leg of the trip was getting across the city of Cleve- land. From Beachwood on the east side, we drove down Cedar Rd. to Carnegie Avenue and into the center of town; over the Main Avenue bridge, which spanned the Cuyahoga River and the industrial “flats“ with its steel mills and refineries; west on Detroit Rd. until it met Route 20, thence through a series of small towns in northwest Ohio. Southwest of Toledo, we turned onto combined routes 23, 24 and 25, following them north for 30 or 40 miles into Michigan, where we picked up route 223 west. This took us through little resort communities in the Irish Hills region, past Devil’s Lake, to Somerset, then north on route 127 through Jackson and Lansing. There, route 127 gave way to route 27, which continued straight north through St. Johns, Ithaca (where there was as I recall either a speed trap or a restaurant serving good fried
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