Photo of the Week: Strolling the Boardwalk in Manistique, Michigan

sign showing distances to Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC greets walkers at the entrance of the boardwalk

What a beautiful fall day it was to walk along the boardwalk in Manistique, Michigan on the northern shore of Lake Michigan. I knew I had traveled a far distance over the weekend. What I didn’t realize: it’s shorter to travel to Chicago, Illinois from Manistique, Michigan than to return back to metro Detroit, Michigan… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Strolling the Boardwalk in Manistique, Michigan

Photo of the Week: Kitch-iti-kipi at Palms Book State Park

covered raft filled with people travels across blue-green waters of freshwater spring

Imagine you’re on a raft with about a dozen other people. The raft has a see-through bottom in the middle.

You’re all peering below at the incredible crystal blue-green clear water beneath you.

Lake trout, brown trout, and brook trout lazily swim underneath as you slowly pass over lime-encrusted tree trunks and branches in the 40-foot deep pool of water.

Think you’re in Florida?

No, think again.

You’re in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, crossing the largest freshwater spring in the state. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Kitch-iti-kipi at Palms Book State Park

Photo of the Week: Lakenenland Sculpture Park

silver metal lion posed on a log as a faced sculpture peers out from a cavity in the log

“Wait. Did you see that entrance sign on the left side of the road? It looks like a bear and a deer cutting a log.

Stop, we have to check this out.”

That’s how we discovered Lakenenland, an outdoor sculpture park east of Marquette in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Lakenenland Sculpture Park