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Travel Blogs from Michigan, United States
Detroit Institute of Art
This is a top pick! When telling people I was planning to visit Detroit I was met with the same responses from Canadians and Americans alike: "Why would you want to go there?" I knew that 'Motor City' was heavily industrial and probably not the prettiest of places to ...
4th stop
This is a top pick! This stop was creepy. I was driving and looking for a small town campground along the highway. I had seen numerous ones before deciding to stop. When I was ready, none were to be found. I drove for over an hour before seeing a sign. I pull in. The ...
Home
This is a top pick! Well, we're back home. Back at work (more of a struggle for me than I thought). Glad to see everyone again, and to meet Phil's niece Carina for the first time (born while we were in India). Since we are back to the same jobs, in the same house, and with ...
ACTS OF SPONTANEOUS ECSTASY
This is a top pick! For the last five months, I lived with my parents and visited friends and family in Grand Rapids, Michigan. One day, I was reading from Jack Kerouacīs enlightening (buddhist) philosophical book, called "some of the dharma." During one ...
Life's a 60-Mile Beach called 90-Mile Beach
This is a top pick! 11/07/04 Don and Norma were flying down to Christchurch this morning for 12 days in the South Island, so on the way to the airport we were dropped off at Kea Campers to begin our own dozen-day sprint around the North Island in a campervan. We ...
Back Home (and Back to Work)
This is a top pick! We've been home almost four months now and it's amazing how quickly we could slide back into a "normal" life. To recap what has happened since getting home: Sarah's parents met us at the airport and brought us a car to drive home in. I got to scare the ...
Awesome Time in Flint
This is a top pick! We got up for an early flight from Las Vegas to Detroit. The flight went over the Grand Canyon so we got to see some great views from the air. As the airline was based in Colorado we had to change planes in Denver. When we eventually ...
Ashes to ashes
This is a top pick! · Pompeii, Campania, Italy · GMT +1:00 hour A room when it is shut up, and the lamp put out - a Pompeii resident describing the effect of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius A Day Trip back in time On our second day in Naples we caught the train ...
Our Trip to Motown - More Baseball
This is a top pick! ... you're allowed to carry a gun with you in the U.S.A. About a kilometre away from the downtown core at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull sits the abandoned old ballpark, Tiger Stadium - closed after the 1999 season in favour of the new Comerica Park in ...
Pompeii - beautiful, extrodinary - yet terrifying
This is a top pick! Well here i am on the 12th. yesturday we got up really early and hopped on a train to head to Naples to get to Pompeii - exciting! :o) Once in Naples (home of the Mafia do i remind you) we didn't really step to much outside the train station as we had ...
Saturday 5 July
This is a top pick! ... thanked them profusely as well as leaving them with a few beers and a card that Holly had made. We left intending to re- enter the States at Port Huron on lake Huron. We wanted to be there early so that if we had to wait in a queue it wouldn't ...
Monday 7 July
This is a top pick! Monday 7th July We had met a lovely couple from Holland, Michigan while watching the evening parade at Disneyland in May. They had told us to visit this place if we could so that was what we did today! We drove along the I96 just to ...
The tickets have been bought...
This is a top pick! We still have several weeks to go before we're off, but the tickets have been purchased. The travelogue plan so far is for Sarah and I to do separate ones so check out "Sarah" for the other side of the story, whatever it is. Aug 25 is when we ...
Sunday 6 July
This is a top pick! ... " and shot through about 9am. We were bound for Sleepy Hollow State park near Lancing in the centre of the state of Michigan. We all went for a swim in the lake there which was lovely, although we were a bit late getting there as our ...
Lake Huron
This is a top pick! We made camp early after the disaster of the day. Great and pretty campground, sunset ...
Kalamazoo Send-Off
This is a top pick! After an exhausting week moving out of our apartment and packing for our big trip, we are so grateful to our friends and family for the weekend-long send-off we were given. Thanks to the Reimann clan for the party Friday night; Derek, Diana and the rest ...
Awning Deployment while in motion, not recommended
This is a top pick! We are following the Michigan Lake tour, which takes us up Lake Michigan and down Lake Huron in a circle around Michigan. We reached the Mackinaw Bridge and decided to drive over it as part of the tour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinaw_Bridge on ...
REVOLUTION
This is a top pick! ... tiny town in the Czech Republic, for example, than to drive fifteen or twenty-five minutes to meet someone in Michigan. -- Interjection: while in college, I developed the theory that complaining was a sign of stupidity, because it meant the person ...
A whistle-stop tour of Northland
This is a top pick! I am so excited it's ridiculous. Exhilerated at the thought of freedom. My first rental car. I phoned last night before the cosiness of a proper family home could envelope me and booked it. $45 a day plus $10 a day to reduce the excess to $100. ...
5th stop
This is a top pick! ... hidden behind Swiss cheese clouds. Rays of sunlight shooting down towards the approaching landscape. The occasional glimpse of Lake Michigan to the right. Curve after curve...after curve. Then another curve......and a view that is forever stained in ...
Travelling Back Home
This is a top pick! Okay, here's my latest installment. I haven't written as much about this trip as I'd hope to, but Andee does such a thorough job of showcasing our adventures, that I really don't have much to add after she's done. Plus, I occasionally proof her before ...
Pompeii : A Two Thousand Year Journey
This is a top pick! Once upon a time, in a land not too far away, a city flourished. It flourished in such a way that its people were rich and content and the city was known far and wide for its beauty, opulence and modernity, and it was envied by all. The people ...
Completing the Circle
This is a top pick! ... to St. Joseph (Jeff's hometown) that night, just in time for the fun to begin. It was no coincidence that we arrived back in Michigan during Blossomtime weekend in St. Joe, and all of Jeff's extended family was in town. So we had a nice "Welcome Back" to ...
PANCHO AND CORINNE TIE THE KNOT!
This is a top pick! ... and licking it off. On May 31, 2002, my dear buddy, Bill "Pancho" Wolbrink and Corinne got married, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Corinne recounted to us how, when she'd first met "Pancho" seven years ago, she'd thought to herself: "What a ...
Tuesday 8 July
This is a top pick! Tuesday 8th July This place also had a laundry, so while the others were in the pool I got another weeks laundry done. It does make you realise how easy life is in your own home where you have everything you need to hand, every day. I always ...
38:25
This is a top pick! That's a long time to sit in a car. 38 hours and 25 minutes straight from San Francisco. It would've been 37 but my eyes wouldn't stay open. Despite being an insomniac, if I ever get to a certain level of fatigue I can pass out anywhere. The trip back ...
The land that time forgot
This is a top pick! We arrived at Pompeii, excited that here was another wonder that we were seeing. It was all there, the brothel with the paintings on the walls for the service that they gave, pity about the beds though, they were as hard as concrete. Could never ...
Vacation on the Lake
This is a top pick! ... We spent about 5 days here cruising around on their different boats, playing lake-side wiffle ball and checking out Michigan's vineyards. One of the local restaurant had a famous Bloody Mary called a 'Chubby'. Basically it's your ...