Dispatches
Yes. There’s a village called Christmas, Michigan in the upper peninsula. Earnest interest brought us there to investigate the holiday celebrations reaching far into the northern parts of our state. The last port of the Christmas Tree Schooner was our first stop. It’s a powerfully sad story! We learned a […]
Did you know that speakeasies were most often marked with a green door? I was curious to locate a historical speakeasy. I researched the Chicago Tribune and found a list of secret watering holes. The Green Door Tavern harbored one such establishment . . . hidden downstairs. We ate dinner […]
July of 2019. I took a little trip with the Zodiac “Thor”. 33 miles one way in open water. We explore some of the history and open water loneliness.
“VLOG” May 2019. I joined a father son team of pilots and adventurer. We headed to a remote air strip on an uninhabited island in Lake Michigan. Few pilots will venture over water in a single engine plane to land on a grass strip on an island of trees and […]
It was late summer as we slogged through the Canadian bush to the promise of a “river bath”. My queen was unhappy. She had that kind of “frustrated” you get when you have been recovering from multiple “ortho-involved” surgeries for the past two years and are forced to hike over […]
This is a continuation of the “Desert Expedition” report. In our first dispatch, we talked about Wupatki and the mysterious abandonment. We considered the evidence, visited the ruins and the road led here. The heart of the Ancestral Pueblo civilization. See Wupatki – The Shadowed Village As I strolled around […]
My eyes had difficulty focusing as I raced down the solitary desert road. The scrubby land slid by as I watched the jagged, weathered black ribbon reveal itself many miles ahead. It was the 7th hour of my drive south from the Bonneville Salt Flats. I am forever trying to […]