I been out on that open road… Is it the path, the sights soaked in? Or the wide open way ahead? The solace, only momentarily interrupted by a fellow traveler. Or the heart pumping in tune to the legs, at one with the wheeled machine? Regardless, the pleasure was pure. An hour a day. Faster…
Category: Michigan Road Trips
Michigan road trips to beaches, lighthouses vineyards, brew houses, restaurants sand dunes surf water unsalted vacations
Sept 26th: The Dead Leaves Tour Begins
What do you do when you already live in a paradise and fall arrives? A multitude of local beaches, seemingly endless trails thru dunes and woods still beckon. Restaurants, brewhouses, vineyards, meaderies, cider mills and eclectic stores within less than an hour’s drive… most still unexplored. So do you stay close? Nope. Here, we head…
August 5th: Keep on Krusing
Coming back from a Muskegon beach restaurant, we ventured into Kruse Park. Known as a great dog park, we were disappointed to have heard it was closed earlier this year due to the winter beach erosion. Over six months ago. Surely they have fixed the stairs by now? Nope. The beach access boardwalk showed no…
August 4th: Nothing special
Just another normal day. Nothing special. First an hour at our dog park, Shilo happily played with friends. Later this morning we drove to the blueberry fields. Came away with five pounds of blue crop blueberries. With 24 or so varieties of blueberries grown in Michigan, we are nearing mid season… our favorite type yet…
June 25th: Sometimes, it’s just right there
Yesterday we cruised up to Pere Marquette beach again. But this time, unlike all the other times, we took a right turn instead of a left. There is was, only a couple thousand feet away from over favorite beach shack restaurant. Dockers. Just a tiny bit inland from Lake Michigan in a small marina. Popping…
June 16th: Breathe deep, breathe free
We are free again! Well, ok, we really never stopped being free. The virus just made for minor inconveniences… and locked us out of our favorite restaurants. Yes, that was our biggest suffering. Does that make us selfish? Does that make us evil? Because we were spared participation in the pandemic of fear and agony?…
May 10th: My latest conversation with John Lennon
Not the first time, won’t be the last I talked to John Lennon again last night. No, he didn’t come to me in a dream… that would be weird. I go to him in my dream. He hangs out at his car wash on top of Sleeping Bear Dunes. It is a beautiful drive. I…
April 28th: Have you ever been lost in a dream?
This is a new one for me… lost in a dream. It happened last night. The set up I love to drive. Long trips with my wife. Or the whole family years ago. But another pleasure is driving alone. The open road. I loved driving to work, or my semi-nearby manufacturing plants. Sometimes the road…
April 24th: Hard Landing
Drove up to Pere Marquette beach today to get some photos of the wavy sand dunes that had built up over the winter. I envisioned some great low level buzzing of the beach. Instead, we saw that much work has been accomplished to flatten the wide beach back down. Worse, my drone issued a flight…
March 15th: Little Sable
A beautiful sunny day in Michigan. Perfect for a little road trip north. Today we headed for Little Sable Point Lighthouse… less than an hour north. Only a handful of people visiting. Perfect in the days of social distancing. In Michigan, near solitude with beautiful views is easy. Especially before the tourists arrive. Shilo, our…