Escaped the noise of the city (and not a day too soon, with an obnoxiously loud music festival in our neighborhood, and fighter jets from the Air and Water Show roaring ominously overhead…) and drove up to Ottawa National Forest in the…
Manistee County Tourism Guide to the River Trail K. has a trip report for us about our long weekend doing the full Manistee River loop trail, starting on the North Country Trail side. “Just remember that going north from the Upper River…
Ghosts of America | Luis Alberto Urrea | Orion Magazine. I just read this Orion article, by a UIC professor. It’s a pictorial landscape, a word snapshot of a road-trip across last summer’s drought-scape. A good but haunting read, or there’s an…