Month: November 2018

Upstate New York has been a blast so far. You wouldn’t normally consider a surprise downpour in the middle of a hike to be fun, but for some reason we were giggling like little kids. President Fillmore should be thankful he has such a pretty place named after him. I’m just glad they didn’t name it “Millard Glenn”. Who names their kid ‘Millard” anyway?

Now I’m excited to get to some free camping! Not because I’m a cheap-ass (though that’s probably true) but because it’ll be the first time since the UP of Michigan that we’ve camped without a campground.

Continue reading “Stops #46 to #50 – Tony”

*To all of our lovely readers – we have been having technical difficulties with the new Word Press platform.  Tony updated the last post to try and clean it up.  If you were having trouble reading it, you should be able to revisit and enjoy now.  Oh, and happy belated turkey day, I hope you stuffed yourself.  Bahahahah.*

As we left Kelley’s Island we found a great farm stand to pick up some apples and pickles and then made our way to Elyria, Ohio for some seriously delicious pizza.  With full stomachs we could finally focus on the task at hand:  jumping into Lake Erie, oh, and finding somewhere to sleep.

Continue reading “Stops #41 to #45 – Jess”

I clearly don’t understand these Michiganders. They have a deep french influence …but it only impacts the spelling because they still talk all midwestern-like. Gratiot is “Gra-shit”, Hamtramck doesn’t have enough vowels to be pronounced “Ham-tram-ick”, maybe it can borrow some from Grosse Pointe.

By far my favorite is this whole Mackinac/w thing. Great place for some R’n’R, but linguistically confounding. It’s either a hard c, or not! Nobody calls the car company “Cadillaw”!! [pulls hair out of head]

Also, I’m pretty sure this Traver guy musta been pretty cool for them to name a whole city after him.

Continue reading “Stops #36 to #40 – Tony”

After a lovely pit stop with a Colorado friend in Wisconsin, we were bound for my cousin’s stomping grounds: northern Wisconsin.  She had tons of suggested places, hikes, and activities, listed for us by region and in order.  Remind you of anybody? 🙂  She obviously shares a passion for both the organized and the outdoors.

Continue reading “Stops #31 to #35 – Jess”