Monthly Archives: January 2024

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 …

According to eekwi.org, Lake Huron, which claims as many as 30,000 islands, has the most miles of Great Lakes shoreline. Most of the islands, however, including Manitoulin, which at 2,766 square kilometers is not only the largest island in Lake …

Why, you might reasonably ask, would I plan to spend the night in Alpena, Michigan? Before I answer this question, I want to introduce this trip’s music identification contest. Beginning with the previous entry, each post will have one or …

My planned trip for this year was scheduled for a June visit to the Baltic Republics (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland) that included a stay in Inari above the Arctic Circle on the summer solstice and a few days in …