May 18, 2013 - Charlevoix/east Jordan

Arrived at Greg and Marlene's in East Jordan. Rose came up with them. Al came alone. Went to Petoskey. Greg cooked another gourmet meal. Sunday went to a couple of vineyards and we had dinner out. They left Monday morning and I'm hanging out here for a couple of days because the weather in the UP is supposed to be bad the next few days. Will leave Thursday the 23rd.

Sep 16, 2011 - A Missed Bike Trip . . .

We totally revamped our plans today. The plan was to head over the Mackinac Bridge no later than 9:00 heading back to Charlevoix, explore the city a bit more, and do our bike ride along Lake Michigan back towards Petoskey and return; looked like a wonderful ride to enjoy! However, three things changed this plan and made our decision to remain home today. The first was finding out that the Antique Tractor and Truck Show going on in St. Ignace today and tomorrow involved a “parade” of the antique tractors over the bridge that goes on the...

Aug 20, 2010 - Charlevoix, MI

Left St Ignace heading to Leland, MI. Winds picked up and 1-3's turned into 4's again. Decided to head into Charlevoix rather than push on to Leland under these conditions. Direction to Charlevoix was easier running than the heading towards Leland plus it is 20 miles shorter. Another 3 days waiting for winds to calm again.

Sep 12, 2009 - Charlevoix City Marina MI

Next stop after Mackinaw City is Charlevoix. Spent 2 days in Charlevoix. Watched the Michigan - Notre Dame game with a bunch of Michigan fans. Tom and Marilyn Sommerfeldt visited Sunday afternoon and took me to their favorite little hideaway restaurant near the marina. It was good to see them again and talk about old times.

Jun 4, 2009 - Charlevoix, Michigan

Tuesday, June 2nd, was spent setting up the coach, laundry, pedicure, and packing for a 10 day vacation. Yup, we are leaving the coach at J.C.'s sister's "farm" aka "Amber Oaks". Our vacation group consists of Kathy & Gerry, sister & brother-in-law, Teresa, another sister and Marie, their mother, J.C. and me. Wednesday we left at 3:30 am. It is some 480 miles to our first destination. We are staying in a resort area called Bay Harbor. Our accommodations is a wonderful 3 bedroom condo at the 'Inn at Bay Harbor'. This is a New England style...

Jun 19, 2008 - Charlevoix, MI

Our final day in northern Michigan began with more rain and dashed our hopes of being able to visit Mackinac Island. Instead we drove down the coast of Lake Michigan from Cross Village to Charlevoix. The beginning of the drive was along a very narrow two-lane road (in fact, we had to check to see if there were signs facing the opposite way to determine that it was indeed a two-lane road) through “The Tunnel of Trees”. Thick strands of trees lined both sides of the road, blocking any but quick glimpses of the lake. Once we emerged from the...

Aug 15, 2006 - Sleeping Bear Dunes

Happy Birthday, Pam! Today we toured the Traverse Bay area called Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It's a beautiful tree-lined road, but I thought it was going to be next to the lake. There were only a few places where you could actually view Lake Michigan. I imagine it would be an outstanding fall tour, however, with all the variety of trees. We stayed the night in the KOA in Traverse City (although it was 15 miles south of the City - the opposite way we were going in the morning!).

Aug 9, 2006 - Little Current, ONT, to Charlevoix, MI

8/2, 3 Little Current This is the last town for us in Canada, it appears. 2 days here site seeing. The best hamburger of the trip has been had here. So good in fact, John went back the 2nd day for another. Laundry... Boaters, Bruce & Jeanne invited us over for a social last nite, as some left over flotilla members are here with us. As we compare notes with others, we are all spreading out as the days go by. 2 boats are dead in the water with engine problems, one is cutting his trip short due to anxiety of the trip, and another was met this...

Aug 2, 2006 - Minnesota - Michigan

From North Dakota to Mackinaw City, Michigan we have found the landscape not changing as rapidly as it did out west. Right now there have been multiple farmlands that all look very similar except for a change in what is growing (wheat, hay, corn, soy and sunflowers). We drove from Round up, North Dakota to Detroit Lakes in Minnesota and stayed at the Country Campground on Lake Glawe. Minnesota also has its farmland but as you go towards the north it becomes more forest like. Minnesota however is the state of 10,000 lakes and we did get to...

Jul 7, 2006 - Empire, MI

Near the campground was the Platte River where lots of people were floating on innertubes, or canoeing dawn the river to Lake Michigan. It looked like great fun. We heard about a scenic drive close by that we wanted to do before we had to be off our campsite at noon. First we went north of Empire, MI to Pierce Stocking National Park scenic drive. Wow, was it ever unusual & beautiful. Lots of scenic turn-outs overlooking Lake Michigan and the sand dunes. The sand dunes in the whole area are amazing. One place is said "Danger 450 foot drop,...

Aug 17, 2005 - Toronto

How quickly three and a half months of insular life is over and unceremoniously we were thrust back out into the real world, with 2 days to gather our thoughts and our things down at Ginbey's before driving to Toronto. Where with 6 others counselors from camp we joined in the celebration of everything not child!!! With eight of us in total, including Sarah, Laura, Holly, Jen, Will and Elise, we over ran parts of the hostel with ease - most notably the long kitchen table where the comfort and familiarity of traveling in a group became most...

Jun 21, 2005 - Go North Young Man

45 19.2 N 85 15.9 W Wind N 5 -10 Weather: Barometer falling at 30.6 73 degrees , 40 % humidity Live from Charlevoix via Frankfurt and Leland. Obviously we have made some great progress since our last chance to talk. We slipped lines from Ludington under a bright sunny sky with winds 15 - 20 from SSW. Our ambitions for that day were only some 20 miles to Manistee but the weather allowed us to push some 30 miles further to Frankfurt. Leaving such noted ports as Manistee and Arcadia to starboard for another adventure, we almost stretched out...