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I’d had a particular and personal set of reasons for my stay on Mackinac Island that began this brief sojourn into Michigan. Today, I reached the first event that sparked my extended stay beyond that first weekend – Maryland’s opening …

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You might recognize the title of today’s entry from the famous Robert Burns poem To a Mouse – “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley” and it seems to be an appropriate theme for this …

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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 …