Last week we had our first visitors of the year when Susan and Greg came to St. Simons Island. Susan Ross and Greg Clark got married February 4 but Tom and I were not able to go to the wedding. Instead, Susan and Greg came to see us on their honeymoon. They had spent a …
From Happy Trails
Best Thing About Ohio
The very best thing about Ohio is all the people we love that live there. When we are in Ohio we are always rushing to see as many of them as we can. Sometimes we get to see the people we love in new places and they get a separate blog post. But, most of …
Trail Improvements at Char-Mar Ridge Park
When Tom and I returned to Ohio from our trip to Michigan and Wisconsin, I noticed trail improvements on my morning walk. I especially noticed them because, at the beginning of the trail, was a sign that said “Caution: Trail improvements ahead.” The trail at Char-Mar Ridge Park is part of my three-mile morning walk …
Devils Lake State Park: Grand Canyon of Wisconsin
Is Devils Lake State Park the Grand Canyon of Wisconsin? Unlike many other states, Wisconsin doesn’t have a place that is commonly referred to as “the Grand Canyon of Wisconsin.” There is an excellent website that talks about 11 canyons in Wisconsin, no canyon is singled out as being grander than the others. As I …
Copper Harbor, Tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula
As soon as I saw Copper Harbor, Michigan, on a map, I wanted to go there. I love to follow a road to its furthest point and imagine living there. What must it be like to, literally, live at the end of the road? Copper Harbor is as far north as you can go in …
Canyon Falls, the Grand Canyon of Michigan
Canyon Falls is the Grand Canyon of Michigan. If you have been reading the blog for a while, you knew I would get to it eventually. There is no way I would spend almost a month in a state without telling you about the Grand Canyon of that state. Unfortunately, our travel time in Michigan …
Muskallonge Lake State Park in Michigan’s UP
Muskallonge Lake State Park was our next camping destination after staying at Soo Locks Campground. Located on the east side of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, it seemed like a good jumping off point for seeing Pictured Rocks. If we had done a little more research, we might have stayed on the west side of Pictured …
Tahquamenon Falls State Park
Tahquamenon Falls State Park in the Upper Peninsula is one of the most beautiful state parks in Michigan. Unlike most of the other state parks, Tahquamenon Falls is not located on the shore of a Great Lake. This makes it more like the state parks we have in Ohio. We visited the park on our …
St Ignace Historic Walking Tour
While we were visiting all the Mackinac stuff, we stayed at Straits State Park in St Ignace, Michigan. Because of the proximity of the park to the town, we spent two days doing the Historic Walking Tour of St Ignace. The town of St Ignace only has 2,500 year-round residents, but the population swells in …
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Mackinac Island is one of those places that I’ve always heard a lot about but never visited until this trip. Whenever people talk about it, they wax poetic about its beauty, the lack of cars, the horse-drawn carriages, the Grand Hotel. After one day on the island, I can say that it is all that …