the rest of our thursday on mackinac

Oct 27, 2016 | travel

after the delicious lunch buffet at the grand hotel, we spent some time walking all around the place.  they charge $10 a person just to enter the lobby, but it was well worth it.  we walked up to the top of the hotel to the cupola bar, which has splendid views. i love...

more fun on mackinac island

Oct 26, 2016 | travel

here’s part of our second and last full day on mackinac, thursday, sept. 22nd.  the morning started out wet and chilly, and it was fun to sit on the big front porch and look out. we’d planned to go to the Grand Hotel for the lunch buffet, so we eventually...

the end of our first full and busy day on mackinac island

Oct 19, 2016 | travel

hiking, biking, and then… more hiking around.  after the long walk and shorter bike ride, we sat in the park at the other end of main street from our hotel and watched the horses and bikes and people.  it was nice to just sit there, but for some reason, and i...

more mackinac!

Oct 16, 2016 | travel

here’s a quick posting of the bike riding we did during in the afternoon of wednesday, september 21st, after spending the morning doing quite a bit of walking. you can rent bikes by the hour, and we started out at around 2:30.  it was fun to be on a bike on such...

hiking, biking, walk walk walking on Mackinac…

Oct 15, 2016 | travel

what a day it was!  this was wednesday, sept. 21st, our first full day on mackinac, and it was definitely, definitely supposed to rain. since i’d left my new raincoat in the car, i wasn’t too pleased with the prospect of rain. but it’s just like here...

Mackinac Island!

Oct 11, 2016 | travel

(it’s pronounced mackinaw, fyi, in case you’re going to be chatting about it with anybody). i love mackinac island! in my last post about our trip up north, i said that we left at 6:30 in the morning on Tuesday, Sept. 20th, to drive from Starved Rock to...

another thursday door!

Oct 8, 2016 | Uncategorized

although of course it’s already saturday!  i took this picture and wanted to post it on thursday, as part of Thursday Doors, but as usual, i had no free time to sit down this week.  but luckily i read the fine print of norm’s requirements for posting and i...