MIchigan

Oct 20, 2019
2 min

One Of The Coolest Places We've Visited!

In my last blog post, I mentioned our visit to giant dunes of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.. While those mammoth dunes were ind...

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Oct 6, 2019
4 min

Michigan's Best Kept Secret..

Quick! ..Where is the tart-cherry capital of the United States? [Que the Jeopardy music] Well, stay tuned to find out the answer to this ...

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Sep 10, 2019
4 min

The U. P. or P. U.!?

Okay, so it wasn't really that bad, but everybody had talked with such glowing reverence for the Upper Peninsula, otherwise known as the...

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Aug 19, 2019
7 min

"It was Summertime in Northern Michigan"..

Like the lyrics to the popular song state: we spent our summertime in northern Michigan. This is the second of four blog posts describin...

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Jul 10, 2019
5 min

Go to Hell?? --Been there. What else you got?!

If you read my last post, you might think the title of this blog refers to the roads we encountered in Michigan. While driving on those r...

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Jun 15, 2019
6 min

"If you don't respect your toys, you don't deserve to have them!"

This is something my mother used to say to me as she was pulling the toy truck from my hands that I was probably using as a hammer to mak...

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