A few months ago we converted a Econoline van into a vamper. Despite putting on 3,000 miles during our initial trip to Joshua Tree National Park, we were planning our next adventure before we got home from our first. Our second vamper vacation would be to the upper Peninsula of Michigan. Here we’d plan to…
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Porcupine Mountains
Last year I turned forty years old. Unlike some, I didn’t dread the prospect. I saw it as an opportunity to celebrate all I’d accomplished. A mile marker beckoning me to continue to forge ahead carving out the life I hoped to lead. I took a couple of ‘life list’ trips. Scott and I climbed…
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and Tahquamenon Falls
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore About a week ago, my long-time friend Kate and I strapped on our daypacks and ventured to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to explore Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and Tahquamenon Falls. We’d spent little time mapping out where exactly our hiking boots would take us. We simply showed up at the…