Great Lakes – Page 2

Public Parks Too Crowded? Visit Your Local Cemetery!

Not much to report right now! I’m still on furlough from work, and don’t expect that to change within the next month or two. I’m living in… Read more “Public Parks Too Crowded? Visit Your Local Cemetery!”

I’ll admit it. I have kind of a “crush” on all of the Great Lakes…well, at least the ones that border Michigan! I think of Lakes Erie… Read more “Some Lake Michigan Scenes (August 8, 2019)”

It’s fairly easy to just “pass through” the city of Marquette, MI if you’re say…traveling to your brother’s house in Houghton, MI (the two cities are just… Read more “Going To Marquette? Be Sure To Stop And Look Around A Bit – And Maybe Have A Beer Or Two!”

Photo from MLive web site – photo credit Devon Hains Negative temps and wind chills didn’t stop a couple of surfers from catching waves on Lake Superior… Read more “Surf’s Up – When The Temperature Was Down – Polar Vortex Surfers”

I have visited more than 70 of the 107 state parks in Michigan during the course of my lifetime. Enjoy this little “photo tour,” which includes at… Read more “(REVISED September 15, 2024) Michigan State Parks – A Photo Tour!”

As some of my most die-hard blog followers already know, one of my favorite vacation pastimes is freighter watching. I can’t explain why it’s so exciting to… Read more “Forty-Three Years Ago Today, A Great Lake Took Down a Great Ship…”

This is just for fun! I am not in any way, shape or form an expert in craft beer, though I have tasted a lot of different… Read more “Michigan Beer/Halloween Candy Pairings”

This is one of a series of photo blogs I’ve done about Michigan’s Great Lakes. If you like white sand beaches, sleepy little towns with overpriced wares… Read more “Lake Michigan – The “Marcia Brady” of the Great Lakes”

This is one of a series of photo blogs I’m doing about Michigan’s Great Lakes… Update, here’s a recent story about the awesomeness of Lake Superior: I’ve lived… Read more “(UPDATED April 14, 2019) Lake Superior – The Best Great Lake Of Them All…”

This is one of a series of photo blogs I’m doing about Michigan’s Great Lakes… Lake Michigan gets most of the attention when it comes to the… Read more “UPDATED – Lake Huron – The Jan Brady of the Great Lakes…”