Monday, July 20, 2009

A River Runs Through It in Grayling, Michigan

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When I first “mapquested” Grayling, Michigan , I saw that it was three hours north of Detroit and dead in the middle of Northern Michigan. ...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

How to Speak Michiganese

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We’ve been having a lot of fun trying to master the accent here in Northern Michigan, which primarily involves elongating your “o’s” by pull...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

From Polka to Perched Dunes in Cedar, Michigan

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Cedar, Michigan, is the “Sausage Capital of the World." Yet it’s so small it doesn’t even warrant its own Wikipedia entry. (Rather, i...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries in Traverse City, Michigan

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Summer in Northern Michigan is all about the cherries. Case in point: we arrived at Traverse City ’s Cherry Capital Airport on July 4th, t...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Baydreaming in St. Michaels, Maryland

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On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, about two hours from DC, there is a tiny fishing village known as St. Michaels (population ~1,200). Some ...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Rating the Dates

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The pictures have been posted and the thrills described. But how did my back-to-back trysts with Santa Fe , Albuquerque and Austin stack...
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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Dazed and Amused in Austin, Texas – Part II

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( Read Part I for the beginning of this tale.) Our second day in Austin we found our bearings. If we’d done our research properly, we prob...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Dazed and Amused in Austin, Texas – Part I

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I knew this could be a problem. Less than 12 hours after returning from my heart-thumping rendezvous with Santa Fe and Albuquerque , I dep...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Desperately Seeking Santa Fe, New Mexico

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I’ve been eager to return to Santa Fe since I started this blog in June 2008. My quest at the time was to find my geographic soul mate , an...
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