Monthly Archives: January 2024

I try visiting another castle and go through Hell to get to Battle Creek

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After my Saint Louis photo-stop, I was off to Owosso about 30 miles south and 18 miles to the east. Since the Castle Museum in Saginaw had been closed, I had more free time to travel east – away from …

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The Wonder of it all

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In my conversation with the folks on the ferry from Mackinac Island they asked me why I’d chosen to stay in Saginaw. I told them that I had two specific places I wanted to see in that city. One was …

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Was Monday an omen?

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While watching the parade of porch furniture Sunday, I began chatting with some of the folks sitting in front of me. We reconnected Monday morning at breakfast and rode the same ferry back to the mainland. They were from California …

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Location, location, location

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Breakfast Saturday morning was as overwhelming as the size of the dining room. It had a hot buffet, a cold buffet, and an ala carte menu from which I predictably ordered the beautifully presented smoked salmon. After breakfast I’d join …

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If you’re going to be part of a cult, make it a classic – part 2

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When I ended the previous post, I’d pointed to a few of the elements that coalesced to help give flight to SiT from its cinnamon nest of obscurity to soar through the celestial firmament reborn as a cult classic. But …

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