If you remember from a previous post, our departure for sunny Mexico was delayed by the terrible deicing debacle in Traverse City. ...

It was with great anticipation that the family and I boarded our 6 AM flight from Traverse City with our final destination being Puerto Vallarta and a connecting flight in Detroit. Then things went wrong....

The Syndicate is coming. It's not as sinister as it sounds. The Syndicate is a new Marriott hotel that has been planned for quite a while but has recently turned from a hole in the ground to an a...

I'm a collector of Happy Hours. I have a spreadsheet that lists the Happy Hour specials of northern Michigan and nestled inside was one I had been wanting to try, a 5 tacos for $5 at Dreloco Tacos on ...

Department stores are having a rough go of things right now. Being born in the 70s and spending much of the late 80s / early 90s working in a mall, they were an important part of teenager culture...

In the name of progress, Traverse City has a few fewer trees along the western section of M-72 / M-22: The pre-work for this spring's construction, including the roundabout, required removal of ...

This was the sad state of our birdfeeder in late October 2024: When bears want bird food, bears get bird food. And thus, our feeding of the birds ended early in 2024. The bear had bent the steel post...

If you have paid attention to this blog, you've noticed that there has been complete silence for the many months. In mid-December, there was a problem with the blog and I lost all the posts I had...

If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET is running and the hard part of creating your own blog is done. There is only a few things left to do....