As I'm sure you would expect, the shape of a National Lakeshore is long and narrow. Pictured Rocks extends 42 miles along the Lake Superior shoreline and covers 73,236 acres. Fifteen miles of this coastline consists of sandstone cliffs rising…
We went to Munising, Michigan, with plans to visit Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Like National Parks, National Lakeshores are managed by the National Park System (NPS). According to The National Parks Foundation, the NPS oversees 423 units that fall into…
We did a little shopping at the Gitche Gumee Landing Giftshop and the Nonesuch Gallery (aka Brad's Guitars) and then we packed up and started heading south on US 45. We could have followed this highway from Ontonagon all the…
Lake Superior has fifty-six lighthouses along its 2,730 mile shoreline. One of them -- a retired one -- can be found in Ontonagon. The current Ontonagon Lighthouse was constructed in a "schoolhouse" style in 1866 to replace an older wooden…
Highway 45 continues north from our overnight stop in Three Lakes. It goes through the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan all the way to Lake Superior. I've lived in Wisconsin for forty-eight of my seventy-three years but have only been…
Except for our usual summer week on Washington Island, we haven't traveled anywhere in almost two years. With the weather forecast for a warm sunny week, it was time to make an escape! So, we loaded up the car and…
On Washington Island there's a small store -- I don't know its name -- that sells what only can be described as "junk." So, I guess I should just call it the junk store. As you drive from the ferry…
Watching the recent Olympics in Tokyo reminded me that when Kathy and I lived in Portland, OR, we often visited the Portland Japanese Garden. The garden covers twelve acres in Portland's Washington Park and includes eight separate garden styles, an…
As you would expect to find in many large old European cities, Munich has palaces. The Residenz, on the edge of Old Town in central Munich, is the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria. It was not…