The Lake Michigan Circe tour (driving all the way around the lake) is a wonderful drive, we did it in 1989. Western Michigan has some good wineries (well, maybe not so interesting for a Californian) and Chicago and Milwaukee are great cities. In Milwaukee go to the Sprecher Brewery tour, skip Miller.

Western Michigan is pretty cool. Ludington, Traverse, and Petoskey (get a stone- you'll see what I mean) are my favorites. Camping is the thing to do around there if your into that sort of thing, they all have great parks if you can get in. The U.P. (upper peninsula)is my favorite though. Lake superior is more senic though, but only if you like rocks and gray water. Anyway, you'll have to drive through the U.P. so take this warning- Keep your eyes open and dont get too lost, all kinds of crazy things happen UP here!

Be sure to get off of the highways now and then and cruise the small roads to explore the hinterlands, some of your best memories will come from spending time in dinky restaurants and diners in small towns. And stay out of the casinos to save up for your next jaunt through Spain!

Eddie had a good idea, I like to add that Taos is close by , also Carlsbad Caverns south of Roswell, close to El Paso.

Carslbad Caverns are magnificent, almost in the same class as Cuevas de Nerja.

I lived close to 20 years in Toronto, 5 years in Buffalo so I can recommend Great Lakes area, much to do , much to see, both sides of the border.

Niagara Falls is a must, Toronto is a large metropolitan city with sizeable portugese, spanish ethnic groups, let alone chinese, greek, italian and so many more.

I just want to warn about Toronto traffic, at best slow, usually not moving at all , five hours of rushour morning and night.

Time your visit to Carlsbad for late afternoon, the sight of the resident bats emerging from the mouth of the cavern in a huge wheeling black cloud is incredible... and if you go through Texas, look for "los Tanques", where there is a park with a vast collection of house sized boulders piled up like kid's toys that you can explore.

Well I am back after my trip to the Great Lakes,
from July 25th till August 11th. My nephew was using my computer and when I came back my computer was with one of those viruses. So I had to format the hard drive and install everything again.
I left my house the 25th and spend the night in Vegas, there I won 400 dollars, good starting. then drive 12 hours to Denver, desert, mountains, then Denver, beautiful city, then drove 8 hours to Mount Rashmore, on the way visited Cheyenne Wyoming. then 8 hours to Minneapolis, what amazing city with all those sky bridges at downtown, and had to visit the Mall of America that appears to be the only place Californians know about Minnessota. My ex brother in Law lives there so he took me around and also to a big casino south of the city, I lost 80 dollars and said to me no more casinos. then I went to Duluth, drove around almost close to Cananda, then pass to Wisconsin was planning in driving around the lake and to Green Bay but it started to rain and after 2 hours of driving and more and more rain I got tired and drove all the way to Chicago with the rain following me. Chicago is beautiful, downtown neat, and right in the corner the lake with the beaches and a lot of people having fun. so clean. the Navy pier, I also drove around the residential areas, and visited relatives. then go to Michigan planning in driving around the state but the rain again so I went to Detroit, did not like it, and at the other side in Canada Windsor is a small town but have more life. I saw a casino, went to take a look, very nice, big, and decided to stay the night there, so I had to play and I won 700 dollars, the next morning to Toronto, big city, interesting, the neighboors around downtown reminds me Boston. food was delicious, but hotels expensive so I drove 2 nights to Niagara Falls( an hour away) to find cheap hotels then the next day drive back to Toronto, then start driving back, from Niagara Falls, drove to Cleveland, then Columbus, then Indianapolis, then ST Louis, drove and walked around, walking along the river I saw a ship that was a casino, and then I decided to try again, and then the first machine gave me 120 dollars, I cashed it and run out of that place, bought souvenirs, then drove to Oklahoma, Albuquerque, Santa Fe. SF is beautiful, and so many stores, restaurants, museums. Then Laughling, during my trip around the states the temperature was in the 80s and then in Laughling it was 120, you go out and you feel the heat like when you are taking the turkey out of the oven. In Laughling I lost the money I had left but it does not matter it was the end of the trip and had a lot of fun.
7000 miles and now I am thinking where to drive next.

I'm curious to know how you manage the time to do all this. Quite an adventure by the way.