My husband, Chuck (DaViking), and I went for a September evening stroll in downtown Grand Rapids. A stunning white horse, pulling a carriage, crossed our path. The horse started to whinny. Was she announcing to us? “I am a pristine Percheron about to cross the blue bridge! Look out!” I […]
Yearly Archives: 2022
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While in Chicago last September we had posted a few photos to Facebook. Chuck instantly received a message from Joel, his long-time friend who resides in the windy city. “Hey, we’re celebrating Oktoberfest tonight. Come on over! There’ll be food, fellowship and music.” Joel is the lead pastor at St. […]
What? There are still speakeasies in Chicago? Come along with Chuck and I as we find The Drifter, a secret bar located behind a shelf in the basement of The Green Door Tavern. The Drifter had materialized one hundred years ago, sometime around 1920. The records are sketchy on the […]
Join us as we investigate a murder. Ok, I know dinner theater doesn’t qualify as an ‘adventure,’ but for my birthday, I wanted to get a taste of solving a case. For years I’ve watched crime shows with interest. Chuck willingly modifies many things for me! On this October night, […]
The Fire Following a wet spring in 1908, the summer in eastern side of northern Michigan’s lower peninsula had been dry. On October 15th rampant winds caused a random spark to start a tragic fire. The blaze had started in Millersburg and grew quickly. The flames burnt northward for 31 […]
“Hey, let’s go for lunch in Ada. Shopping, too!” Chuck’s eyebrows danced knowing how I like to eat and shop. “We can take Loki! It will be a trial excursion for our trip down the Mississippi.” Loki is our new freighter canoe. “We can put him in at the fair […]
“Do we just wait in line here?” I asked the preteen Cree girl and her friend as they watched our convoy maneuver slowly for the approaching ferry. “You have to do it backwards.” She said with the authority of a dock supervisor. “Thanks!” I exclaimed, relieved to have some understanding […]
Thump-thump…clank. Every few seconds we would hit a full width trough in the payment and the Jeep would jump, followed by the tinkle of metal objects – coins, a spoon, tent stake – somewhere in the vehicle. On occasion an object would slide off its perch and dive gracefully into […]
We had just arrived at Longue Pointe, the northern terminus of any road in eastern North America. The point serves as a launch for hunting and fishing parties of the nearby villages. As we maneuvered our vehicles into our makeshift campsites overlooking the water, the low thrum of an engine […]
We sat in the huge white tent and the milky light faded as evening settled. The tent was big enough for a circus. It had bleachers surrounding a huge plywood dance floor. At one end was a stage with an older, energetic Cree woman announcing, in Cree, the goings on. […]