On our way to the King of Pop's House!!!

We decided we saw everything we needed to see in Chicago and were pretty full from all the local cuisine, so we headed on towards the east coast paving our way for the Big Apple. We were super eager to get as much driving in as possible. But before we left the good ol' Midwest, we stopped in Gary, Indiana to visit the childhood home of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

We pulled off the exit and took a couple turns on some street and then we hit it. We pulled in front of MJ's house, parked the rig and hopped out to take a closer look. There was a rod iron gate surrounding the lil house, but it was all original, just how they had left it. The street was renamed to the Jackson Family Blvd. We asked the groundskeeper if we could take some photos, he said feel free and we striked a pose in MJ's honor.

Just as we were taking some close-ups, a guy pulled up in an old Buick and asked us if we wanted him to take a picture with both if us in it. He pretty much insisted, parked his car and came over to shoot a few. He had lived here all his life and was a teacher at the school behind the Jackson home. He told us to remember his face because he was going to be on Oprah. So, of course we curiously asked, "What for?" He told us that when the cousin's of the Jackson's had renovated the inside of the home years ago, they were just going to throw away all the stuff inside, but that he had came in and taken the all original details of the interior of the home. We weren't really sure if we believed it, but he was super convincing.

He told us he would send us a piece of the Jackson home and that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and we should take advantage of this and give him our address. At the time, we didn't really have an address, since we were gypsies, so he went over to his car and wrote down his address and told us to send him a letter with our address in it when we got one and he would send us a piece of wood or a little something from the original Jackson home.

It was really weird but at the same time pretty cool that we ran into this guy. Either way seeing the Jackson family's home was a pretty memorable stop and we didn't even plan it. But we figured, when is the next time we were going to be in Gary, IN to see this. FYI...there isn't much to see in Gary, IN except for MJ's home and you really just want to snap your photos and hightail it outta there. It wasn't the nicest of places that's for sure. But hosts the birthplace of a really awesome musical legend. RIP MJ.