One of these days I'm going to actually get to explore these 2 cemeteries!
They're both located in / near Kalamazoo, Michigan which is about 2 1/2 hours from my house.
Yeah, I stopped right in the road and rolled my window down to get this pic.
Last year, I was supposed to attend a VFW conference in Kzoo and I was excited to get the chance to do some exploring afterward..... then I came down with the Flu and didn't go.
So this year, again, I was going to visit after the convention!
But a foot of snow and temps in the teens kind of deterred me from getting out of the car.
Someone else was a lot braver (and had a bigger vehicle) than me!
I saw on Find A Grave (well, Google maps) that there's not an actual road thru the cemetery, just a paved driveway thru the gate, then it changes into a dirt 2 track. And it's a small enough cemetery where the road doesn't even loop around - it just goes straight to the back.
I really want to check this one out, since it's full of people with really interesting & unusual names!
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The next place, I probably ~could~ have explored, since the road and sidewalks were all nicely cleared.
But I was just wearing a hoodie & tennis shoes when I drove thru and didn't want to stop and dig my winter weather gear out of the back of the car.
Also called Gate of Heaven Cemetery
What is super interesting about this cemetery is that the graves are all nuns and some priests.
And even rolling slowly thru in the car, I could feel how peaceful it was.
There were lots of deer in the area, too.
The 4x4 post on top of this little hill says "priests".
One of these (warmer) days!
