Archive - June 2019

Michigan Part II: The Marvelous Mitten State

The final week of our travels around the Mitten passed in a blur of wonderful memories, including four more days with my parents, as well as a great visit with cousins (and fellow RV’ers!) John and Judy, up from Florida!   ************************* The popular town of Petoskey has a beautiful walkable gaslight district full of shops, tasting...

Wisconsin: Apostle Islands National Lakeshore + Bonus MIchigan Roadside Art Park

A scant 36 hours in Wisconsin yielded exactly one stop, but it was a beauty! The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is like a National Park, but on water.  It is overseen by the National Park Service, just like its land-based brethren. The Apostle Islands include 21 mostly uninhabited islands off the coast of Bayfield, Wisconsin.  Philip is pointing to our...

Minnesota: Landa Happy Waters

Trying (and failing) to escape the cold and rain, we next visited Minnesota and its many lakes, rivers, and waterfalls.  License plates proclaim Minnesota “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” but that’s only because the more-accurate “Land of 11,842 Lakes” isn’t very catchy. Large and small, they’ve got ’em all! All these...