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We pulled into our driveway at noon this past Sunday after traveling a total of 6,000 miles in two months! It was good to be home. We pulled out of our Michigan Airbnb one week ago today, heading to the Ark Encounter in Kentucky. We arrived close to 3pm, but...
Yes, the shoreline of a lake can be called a beach. Dale and I actually had this discussion on the way home from Holland State Park on Lake Michigan last Sunday. The defining characteristic of a beach is the “accumulation of loose particles like sand or pebbles at the edge...
I was truly impressed with the love Grand Haven has for the Coast Guard. What started as a picnic in 1924, has grown into a ten-day festival that draws more than 350,000 people, including the nation’s highest-ranking United States Coast Guard dignitaries from Washington, DC. The town is literally known...
Every home in the Heritage Hill District of Grand Rapids has a history and the Meyer May home, which is just a couple of blocks from where we are staying, has a very interesting one. We came across it as we were taking a walk one morning. I told Dale...
I guess staying in a 155-year-old home in a historic neighborhood wasn’t enough, so we traveled about a half hour east to a spot in the woods where the whole village is historic! Fallasburg Festival was our main event for our first Saturday in Grand Rapids. Fallasburg is a historic...
If that headline makes you say, “what in the heck?”, I would like to say that my description of our experience may still leave you with questions. I know I still have some. During my area research I came across the Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association and the James Veen...
There are so many charming lakeside towns along Michigan’s coast and Saugatuck is definitely one of them. Unfortunately everyone agrees with me and was in town the day we visited! Ha! We headed to Saugatuck, which is about 45 minutes from Grand Rapids, on a Sunday after church. After trolling...
The Heritage Hill neighborhood, where we currently reside, is Grand Rapid’s oldest residential district with more than 1,300 homes dating from 1844. We are currently living on the third floor of a home built in 1870. The entire neighborhood is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is...
What is a Yooper you may ask? A Yooper is what people who live on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP) are called. It’s a play off of the word Uppers. Yoopers call anyone who lives on Michigan’s mainland, trolls (because they live under the Michigan bridge) or flat-landers. Dale took a...
We had to get back to Custer State Park one more time before leaving South Dakota. We first visited the park on June 19, four days after our arrival. Two days later we went back for a short hike, picnic and maybe swim at Sylvan Lake. But it still wasn’t...
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