It seems like I tend to write these updates in the start of November, just as fall has come to a close and old man winter is pounding on the door. Maybe it’s the grey clouds and a nip in the air that stir my curiosity to write again. Or perhaps the summer was […]
Introduction It’s hard to believe that I’ve been living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for nearly 7 years. It seems like just yesterday that Carolyn and I packed up our cars and drove north over the mighty Mackinac Bridge one bitterly cold, February day. When we arrived in Munising the bay was iced
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Backpacking the Jordan River Pathway Loop in Michigan Winter 2024 was one for the record books for Northern Michigan. And before you ask, no, it wasn’t because we got a lot of snow. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Total snowfall for our area, which routinely sees over 200 inches of snow a
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Since it is now April, I find it acceptable to publish the photographs I managed to capture this winter. My hope is that winter will take the hint and finally leave! The 2018/2019 winter up here in the Upper Peninsula was intense, but I am happy to report that we survived the season in the
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Read by 7-year update here. Big white snowflakes are falling outside in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A non-substantial layer of the fluffy white stuff coats everything outside, and the cloudy, blizzardy air of everything looks like I’m watching television static through my outdoor window. “About 4-6 inches expected,” the weatherman Karl Bohnak said last
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Read my 7-year update here. Moving On It’s been nearly 4.5 months since the end of my Mississippi River trip and subsequently the end of nearly two years of traveling. It’s hard to imagine that all of that has come and gone. It seems like only yesterday that Carolyn and I were planning to quit
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