HMS Beangle
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Category: Michigan
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When I return to a region so full of family and friends, not a lot of pictures get taken. Sorry, but it’s always been this way. For nearly three weeks, we barely saw the inside of the HMS Beangle, as we curled up in the homes of others. Running water? Right there. Heat? Turned on.…
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Mack-a-naw or Mack-in-awe, I’ve heard both, but it’s definitely not Mack-in-ack. Go ahead and take a sec to practice, if needed. The Mighty Mac can be five miles of swaying suspension terror on high wind days, makes a truly horrendous sound when driving on the inner metal grates, and the edge rails feel far farrrrr…
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When we heard that some of our favorite people were going to be camping near Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, we decided to head to Munising, MI. We didn’t know what to expect with the governmental shutdown, but even if we couldn’t get into the park, we knew we wanted to see Rob and Kate. If…
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There’s no getting around the fact that Fayette — a company town on the shores of Big Bay de Noc, a peninsula on the southern shore of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — was a major contributor to America’s Industrial Revolution and the northern states’ wealth after the Civil War. Now the Fayette State Historic Park, it’s…
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“I thought the earth remembered me, shetook me back so tenderly, arrangingher dark skirts, her pocketsfull of lichens and seeds.” From ‘Sleeping in the Forest’ by Mary Oliver It’s hard not to relax when a forest welcomes you with a warm, colorful embrace. Sylvania Campground on Clark Lake is a National Forest campground in Michigan’s…
