A compendium of adventures and other nonsense
All right, I’ve gotten lazy. This will be a short post about the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton OH: https://www.profootballhof.com/ and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittburgh PA: https://www.warhol.org/
They are both worth going to! I’m not going to add a bunch of photos but here’s a few: Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 12 – NFL Football Hall of Fame and Andy Warhol Museum”
As promised here are a ton more photos from the RnR Hall of Fame! Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 11 – Cleveland and the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame: Part 2”
After leaving Cedar, I headed to Oxford MI to spend a night with Dawn. Then, the next morning I headed to Cleveland. I was staying at a Kimpton Hotel – the Kimpton Schofield. Sadly, although it wasn’t exactly dumpy, it was the dumpiest Kimpton I’ve ever stayed at. The rooms were kinda beat. But the lobby was nice and the wine hour was nice. Not too many people staying there – things were still in the midst of slowing opening back up – so that was nice. Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 10 – Cleveland and the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame: Part 1”
The day for scaling Sleeping Bear Dunes arrived! And they weren’t very far away – just past Glen Arbor.
Here’s a link: https://www.nps.gov/slbe/index.htm
I thought it was going to be a fairly short walk to get to the water – just steep dunes – but, I was mistaken. Steep dunes AND it was about 1 & 3/4 miles each way! And it was hot! Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 9 – Sleeping Bear Dunes”
The next morning I had some time to myself and found a nearby preserve to go for a little hike/walk. As it turns out, there are a lot of them, and I probably could have gone to a different one every day if I had realized how close everything was. Oh well! Maybe I’ll go back there someday … Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 8 – Swanson Preserve and more Traverse City”
I had some time to myself so decided to do a little exploring. After my day with Dawn and realizing that things really weren’t very far from where I was staying, I decided to go to Glen Arbor and check things out. The weather turned hot, and I brought mainly cooler weather clothing for the trip so I was hoping I might find a little sundress or something that would be cooler to wear. Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 7 – Glen Arbor”
As I said in a previous post, my friend Dawn came up to stay with me for 2 nights at the VRBO. On Wednesday after she finished up a work call, she took me around the area. First stop was ‘Fish Town’ in Leland MI. Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 6 – a little tour with Dawn”
My first full day I spent a bit by myself, so I went for another walk around the VRBO and then decided to go to Traverse City to the co-op (Oryana – https://www.oryana.coop/) to pick up some groceries. My friend Dawn would be arriving on Tuesday and I said I would make dinner for everybody so I had a bunch of things to get. I decided to make Baingan Bhurta, an Indian eggplant/tomato stew. River and Adam are vegan, and this is one of my favorite dishes to make anyway, so, it all worked out. Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 5 – little trip to the co-op in Traverse City”
After the Meijer Gardens, it was time to head to Cedar. The route the GPS took me on went up to Traverse City, then west to Cedar. I got an unexpected glimpse (and sniff) of Grand Traverse Bay. So beautiful! I was excited to see a lot of walking paths and a lot of people out and about. Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 4 – Cedar MI”
While I was planning my route to get to Cedar from East Lansing, I noticed a sculpture garden that is in Grand Rapids, so I decided to stop in there on my way. Actually, it was a little bit out of my way, but I decided to stop in anyway – it got great reviews online. It’s called the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. Here’s a link: https://www.meijergardens.org/ Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 3 – East Lansing MI to Cedar MI”
So, the next morning I went down to the cafeteria at the hotel. It was “grab n go” but somebody was there to do the grabbing for you. So, I got a coffee and an egg and cheese sandwich (if I remember right it was Jimmy Dean. Not the best, but, it served the purpose). The coffee was good though.
Found a water machine to fill up my water bottles, got all the stuff back into the car, set the GPS and off I went. Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 2 – Warren OH to East Lansing MI”
Yeah, welp, it’s been quite a while since I posted here. Sorry about that! I guess I really didn’t feel like I had much to post about. I have done some paintings in between and perhaps I will post about them later, but, I do want to document my road trip before I forget more things.
So, in a previous post or two I’ve mentioned River, with whom I had a Tarot reading back in October. As it turns out, he became my Spiritual Coach and we’ve been working together on that since October, meeting once a week via Zoom. A few months ago we talked about meeting up in person, and in the last month or so we decided that the latter part of May would be a good time to do so. My 2 weeks after being fully vaccinated was up on May 3 so the timing felt right. Continue reading “Road Trip Spring 2021 – Part 1 – Home to Warren OH”