Breweries and brewpubs in Michigan total 256. But what I really look forward to are the over 100 wineries. A great many of them are clustered along the western Michigan coast. Makes for great summer road trips… visiting beaches and wineries for many years to come.
Category: Michigan Road Trips
Michigan road trips to beaches, lighthouses vineyards, brew houses, restaurants sand dunes surf water unsalted vacations
T -82 Days: Singapore Michigan
Singapore, Michigan Ever heard of it? Founded in 1836, it no longer exists. Swallowed by the shifting sand dunes on the shores of Lake Michigan… a bit south of where we will live. When we originally lived in Holland, I had heard about this famous ghost town. It was used as an example of why…
T -84 Days: Photgraphers do Michigan
Another restroom conversation yesterday (since we don’t have an elevator). With a co-worker who has been occasionally thinking about retirement, but just can’t decide. I asked him what he has always wanted to do with his life. He talked about photography being a love. I said… move to Michigan! Ice volcanos or ice geysers, yet…
T -86 Days: Dunes in Michigan
I look out and see flurries of snow being whipped between the trees of my backyard in Iowa. The Michigan summer seems far away. But it is just around the corner.
T -152 Days: Secret Beach
There we were, lost on a Michigan back road, trying to find another secret beach, a beach party about to start. At a four-way stop, surrounded by woods. Twilight, no road signs, no buildings, before iPhones. My new…..wife and I. It was so how hard to say “wife” back then. Girlfriend was easy to say. So…