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Fort Pickens Beach Sunset

Greetings, We’re Ross and Joanne and we love scenic travel, exploring new places, and having fun in the out of doors – camping, hiking, biking, snowshoeing to name a few of our favorites. We’re former tent campers and wilderness canoeing explorers who now travel and explore in a bit more comfort – in our Winnebago … Read more

Grayton Seafood Co | Grayton Beach

grayton seafood co

Restaurant Review: Grayton Seafood Company, Grayton Beach, Florida On our previous visits to Grayton Beach we’ve eaten at The Red Bar so on our most recent visit we were looking to try something new. A search on “Google” provided some positive reviews for the Seafood Company located in the main entertainment and shopping portion of … Read more

Snow Report – Wisconsin, Minnesota, Upper Peninsula

Snow Across Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula Dateline January 10, 2016. Resort, pub owners, restaurants, convenience stores – all sorts of businesses across Minnesota’s North Shore, Northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are happy folks because they’ve finally had some snow and normally cold weather. Joining in the merriment are winter recreation enthusiasts – … Read more

Rittenhouse Inn Review | Bayfield, Wisconsin

Rittenhouse Inn

Dining and Lodging at the Rittenhouse Inn Bayfield, WI Few visitors to Bayfield escape noticing the historic Rittenhouse Inn on the main Highway 13 road into downtown (Rittenhouse Avenue). Perched high on the hill about five blocks up from the harbor, its size, beauty and Victorian architecture evokes “wows” and more erudite exclamations. In addition … Read more

Top Door County Golf Courses

Golf Course Reviews Door County Wisconsin Golf Courses reviewed in this article: Idlewild (Sturgeon Bay, WI), Orchards at Egg Harbor (Egg Harbor, WI), and Peninsula State Park Golf Course (Ephraim, WI) During our trip to enjoy fall colors in Wisconsin’s Door County, my brother-in-law Dan and I planned to sample some of the peninsula’s golf … Read more

Duluth, MN North Shore Fall Events

Superior Dragon Boat Race Superior, WI

Duluth, Minnesota-Superior, Wisconsin Fall Events The big event in the Duluth-Superior Twin Ports area at the end of August is the  Lake Superior Dragonboat Race The race is held in a protected bay on the south side of Barkers Island. The island is the site of the festival part of the race. Yes, more music, entertainment, … Read more

National Parks

Pictured Rocks, Munising, Michigan

Scenic Drives and National Parks Everyone knows about Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. We don’t serve our purpose by covering these scenic and exceptional national treasures in our pages. What we would like to do is acquaint you with some of the lesser known but interesting and scenic places within the National Parks system. One … Read more

Isle Royale National Park

Isle Royale

Hiking the Isle Royale National ParkImogen Reed, Guest Contributor At the far northwest of Michigan is an island closer to both Minnesota and Canada than any other part of the state. So far in fact, that if you wanted to drive from any other part of Michigan you would have to go through at least … Read more

Spring Golfing, Scenic Travel

Degray Lake Golf Course

Winter ending, golfing begins March 11 temperature forecast Madison, Wisconsin: High 62 degrees. The Meadows golf course in Waunakee and the Golf Bowl in Mount Horeb opened for play yesterday. Ordinarily I’d be making my tee time at one of these courses but my bags are packed as we leave tomorrow for Hot Springs. After … Read more

RV Travel Links & Resources

davis bayou campground

Travel Links and Resources for campers, Motor Home & RV owners, and scenic travelers Here we list some online resources on renting RVs, finding good campsites, and other travel and rv resources we use in planning our travel. Campground Links Here’s some useful links to finding public RV campgrounds Campground Search – Recreation.gov – recreation.gov/marketing.do?goto=acm/Explore_And_More/camping.htm The … Read more

Fall Color Thunder Bay Ontario

Things to see and do in Thunder Bay In this post: Fall Color, Golfing, Dining, and visiting Fort William During our recent Minnesota North Shore Color Tour, we decided to extend our travels to run up as far north as Thunder Bay, Ontario. The color was not as striking as what we found along Minnesota’s … Read more

Fall Color and Events – Duluth & North Shore

What’s Happening in Duluth and along the North Shore in the fall Duluth September Events The Duluth-North Shore fall season begins the second weekend of September with Duluth’s annual LakeWalk Festival. See more about Duluth’s Lakewalk here. Later that month the annual Oktoberfest will be held in Duluth’s Bayfront Park. German Beer & Food, Oktoberfest … Read more

Fall Color Michigan Upper Peninsula

tahquamenon falls

Scenic Fall Color Drives from Marquette to Sault Saint Marie, Michigan During the last week in September, 2010 Jo and I toured the central UP to investigate first hand the fall foliage and color changes. Our trip began on September 20th and lasted through the 28th. (See Days 1 & 2 Reports Here) The table … Read more

UP Fall Color Tour – Pictured Rocks

pictured rocks national park

Monday September 20, 2010Munising, Michigan color tour – days 1 & 2 color tour – days 3 & 4 color tour – days 5 & 6 color tour – days 7,8 & 9 In late September Jo and I traveled to the Upper Peninsula with her sister Donna and our brother-in-law Dan to enjoy some … Read more

UP Fall Color Tour – 2

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Brimley, Michigan – Wild Bluff Golf Course color tour – days 1 & 2 color tour – days 3 & 4 color tour – days 5 & 6 color tour – days 7,8 & 9 During the drive from Grand Marais to Brimley the color change was modest. As we got away … Read more