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We were back on the road again, less than a week after our travel volleyball trip to Milwaukee, WI. Another volleyball weekend. Another hotel. Another set of gym chairs that somehow all look the same, no matter what city you are in. This time it was Pontiac, Michigan. Only about …
We left Grand Rapids on Friday afternoon, thinking this was going to be a volleyball weekend. By the time we got home Monday night, it had turned into something bigger than that. A championship run. A migraine lesson at age fifty. And a quiet internal wrestling match with a casino …
Heading East in the Heart of a Michigan Winter January in Michigan has a way of lowering expectations almost immediately. After a full week of brutally cold temperatures and snowfall every single day in West Michigan, we fully expected the drive from Grand Rapids to the Detroit area to be …
A Short Winter Trip That Felt Bigger Than It Was In the middle of a classic January snowstorm in Michigan, we made the short drive from Northeast Grand Rapids to downtown Rockford. It’s only about eight miles, but when the snow is coming down sideways, and the roads are half …
Every year, fathers and sons across the Midwest pack up their pickup trucks and head north… a pilgrimage fueled by coffee, Mountain Dew, YouTube Music on the radio, and a few unnecessary stops along the way. This year, it was my son, Ethan, and I making the trip to northern …
It was already dark on Thursday night when my son, Ethan, and I pulled up to the cottage on Hamlin Lake that our family rented for Labor Day weekend. My wife and my other two kids had arrived a few hours earlier and already started settling into our quaint little …
Most of the time, history is hidden in old dusty books (or internet archives) or locked away behind glass cases in a museum. Our experience at the Battlefield at Manassas was different. History walked right up to us in the form of an older gentleman who happened to be a …