Jun 28, 2014
There is about one week left before the Ann Arbor Summer Festival closes its doors for 2014. Top of the Park is in full swing and I've been a few times already to this basically free outdoor music festival. Their is quite a variety of music to be heard as well as the regularly scheduled movies. I do hope you can get...
Apr 3, 2012
The Fortune Bay Expedition Team during a warm weekend in July 2011 trekked out to Garden Island in Lake Michigan. We had a wild and whacky weekend. It has taken a terribly long time to put this video together but I hope you enjoy...
Aug 14, 2011
This is the second year that the Maker Faire has come to the Henry Ford Museum in the Dearborn/Detroit area. The fair is all about do-it-yourself building projects from the very small to the huge. While the huge projects, like the Gon Kirin fire breathing dragon or the Life Sized Mousetrap, certainly attract attention...
Dec 15, 2010
On an overcast morning Andy Mytys pulled up and I hopped into his car for the drive to Mount Pleasant, Michigan to join dozens of others for the memorial service for Richard "Dick" Bolton. I was part of the small contingent of people who knew Dick through hiking activities focused on the North Country Trail and through...
Nov 22, 2010
Since 1999 the members of the GreatLakesHikes email group hosted over on Yahoo Groups has held a gathering in early November the weekend before modern gun (rifle) deer season starts. For a weekend we take over the Schoolhouse owned by the <a href="http://northcountrytrail.org/wmi/">Western Michigan Chapter</a> of the...