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We have visited many dunes areas: from Cape Cod and the Indiana and Michigan dunes, to the desserts of Northern Africa and the Middle East. However, we never got a complete explanation of how dunes were created and how they evolve. That changed when we stopped at the Indiana Dunes. We explored a small segment […]
Saugatuck Michigan Saugatuck Michigan is a small, neighboring resort town scenically sited on a harbor off Lake Michigan. It is the center of what is called the Art Coast. While the town is supposed to be the center for many of the area’s galleries, we found that clothing stores outnumbered galleries by about 10:1 and […]
Holland Michigan is pretty little town. It has a number of mid-to-late, 19th-century Victorian buildings in the city’s downtown and Washington Boulevard neighborhoods and Dutch-influenced buildings on the Hope College campus. Centennial Park, meanwhile, is currently building a tribute to part-time inhabitant Frank Baum, who wrote the Wizard of Oz. The …
Continuing our trip on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we made a stop in the tiny, roughly 200-person town; a visit to Fayette Historic State Park in Garden Michigan. Fayette Historic State Park The Fayette Historic State Park is a former factory surrounding Snail Shell Harbor and contains over 20 historic buildings. Jackson Iron Company built it […]
The primary goal of our visit to Michigan City was to reacquaint ourselves with the beauty of the Indiana Dunes. We discovered that the Michigan City area offered more to do than we expected. Michigan City Art and History We found ourselves exploring the city’s Uptown Arts District on the first Friday evening of the […]
We had two primary reasons for spending a day in Grand Rapids—the Gerald R. Ford Museum and the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. This left us just enough time to explore an additional, optional stop for a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Meyer May House. Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum The museum took us […]