It's like a fast-food magic trick. A couple of months ago, we have a happy KFC sitting next door to McDonald's: Then, abracadabra! We have a Taco Bell: Taco Bell is making its move from a block away...

Winter gives up the ghost slowly in Northern Michigan. We have several false springs before the final, short, and actual spring occurs, lasts about a week, and we are into the high humidity and crushi...

A habit of mine is to randomly scroll Google Maps and look for things. I was meeting a guy at the Platte River fish hatchery to buy some weight plates off of Facebook Marketplace, a fact whi...

Exploring the East Bay trails at Maple Bay. Wonderful little walk through red pines and beautiful views of the bay and the Old Mission peninsula....

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 ...