On the Offbeat Path

02/01/2024

Soooo, have you been to the Twin Soos? My latest story for Lakeland Boating Magazine: https://lakelandboating.com/sister-cities-of-sault-ste-marie/ I Love Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

11/19/2021

Orehenge 🌅
This phenomenon happens twice a year when the sun aligns perfectly with the Lower Harbor Ore Dock. If conditions are good, you should be able to see it the next few mornings at 8 AM.

The next time it is set to align is around January 20th.⁠

📷: True Presence Photography

10/06/2021

HEY KIDS! Be the first on your block to post a selfie of you at the new Northernmost Point of Lake Michigan marker! At the Garfield Township Marina in Naubinway

09/06/2021

Happy 906 Day!

Today we celebrate the greatest area code in all the land, representing this place we all know and love, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

To celebrate...

• Take a sauna
• Split some wood
• Buy a friend a pasty
• Swim in the Great Lakes
• Play a game of Euchre or Cribbage
• Test your nerves at the Paulding Light
• Live outside the U.P.? Plan a road trip back!
• Make a toast with some Upper Peninsula brews
• Pay for the car behind you at the Mackinac Bridge
• Sing “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot
• Go hiking and biking and kayaking and fishing and stone skipping and do all the other -ings
• Breathe in the fresh air and be delighted by this special place, the Upper Peninsula of America!

10/29/2018

Thinking about our family Thanksgiving with Paige in the Big Apple two years ago, when we roamed around and I finally got to the Tenement Museum. Well, we made it to the great museum shop. Now, to return with enough time to do the tours.

As seen in NYC:

10/29/2018

As seen in NYC:

05/22/2017

Graham drives a 1964 Peel Trident and writes about the funny little cars on exhibit for a year, starting May 25, 2017 at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville.

Have you had it with the grating pretension that has invaded every corner of the car world, from Euro sports cars to American barn finds to Japanese trucks?Has the unceasing pressure to cultivate that ...

10/20/2016

Now this is my idea of camping. I visited Sonoma County, CA several years ago and loved it. Would be worth another trip to that area to experience AutoCamp

Nestled in the Russian River Valley, AutoCamp’s custom Airstream trailers and midcentury pavilion provide a boutique camping experience that holds widespread appeal.

05/30/2016

That's my boy: "There is no windshield to protect you from choking silt, tumbleweeds or the beehives that locals have been known to toss into passing trucks, just for kicks (perverse entertainment, but it makes more sense after you see what rural Baja has to offer)."

The Baja 1000 is many things at once: a logistical nightmare, a multi-front war, a feat of endurance, a test of patience. It’s a modern-day Targa Florio charging down the freakish, 775-mile ...

08/10/2012

What do Olympians do when they’re not running, jumping, skating or swinging at shuttlecocks? Some of them pick up a paint brush, clay or camera—or, like the late discus champion Al Oert...

07/21/2012

Finally got to Comerica Park for a game the other evening—the first time I’ve been to the Detroit ballpark since the Tigers signed slugger Prince Fielder early this year. It was a memor...