Your hosts and how we got here:
My wife Marisa and I are a couple of 50-somethings from metro Detroit who really had never explored Michigan's thumb until a weekend trip with friends about 8 years ago. It was the thumb's yearly "Yard Sale Trail," coordinated every August along M25 from Algonac to Port Austin. Traffic, normally excellent on M25, is slow on this weekend as bargain hunters fill driveways, yards and barns. If you can crane and contort your neck long enough as you drive by, you too can find something you've been searching for your whole life, or at least that's what I was hoping, lol. We had always enjoyed antiquing (at the time I had a booth at an antique mall) and doing it with the company of our good friends was something we were really looking forward to. As it turned out this weekend in the thumb would turn out to be a life changing trip for all of us.
As we left the concrete grey and right angles of Port Huron, it wasn't long before we realized this was more than a trip for garage saling and a stay in a motel. The visions of Lake Huron peaking out from the trees' canopies on M25 exuded calmness and relaxation, even though we were just 80 minutes from home. It was as if we had entered another realm. I half expected Rod Serling to be standing behind the table at the next sale, arms folded, telling us we were "witnessing a new world".

By the time our friends were on the last day of our little trip they were pricing cottages. We started shortly after that, and along with Marisa's parents Mike and Gina (2 other adventurers), we purchased this 100 by 200' plot of land (with a condemned trailer on it) from the bank in 2013. The house is modular, driven here and set up in 2015. The upstairs, garage, and deck were left unfinished or were dreams at that moment.., but we were focused and united in creating that "other realm."
My father in law's construction and building experience (as well as our ability to youtube) helped us to complete the project during weekends, days off, and vacations (if it ever really is "completed.")

We lost Gina to illness in 2017 but her spirit and legacy lives within all of her family and friends and through all her projects, especially this project that we all embarked on shortly after that "Yard Sale Trail" some 8 years ago.
We are so happy you are spending quality time with your families and friends here, these walls were created by the hope and love we know you share, and your events here will be a part of that happy fabric...