The thing I loved most about living in L.A. (more than the weather!) was living in a microcosm of everything that exists in the world. There is almost nothing anywhere on the planet that isn’t in Los Angeles in some way. But cities can be diverse and still be...
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I had never been to Detroit before, and I have been so incredibly curious about it. The photos I saw of it emptied and abandoned, and then hearing the news stories of revitalization and gentrification… I wanted to see it with my own eyes. It was more stunningly...
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Just cute! Especially those shutters on the side of the building!! LOVELY flowers! Courtesy of WOTM #854. AND that moose has a rose between its teeth. Cyoot! LADIES NIGHT OUT Friday before Mother’s Day & Friday before gun deer season (Ha!) H is for...
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Flint has been on my mind ever since its municipal water crisis. (And it’s not over!) I wanted to commune with it, even if it was just for one day. Before it was Vehicle City, Flint was Carriage Town. The original headquarters of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company,...
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Zee Frensch pronounced eet “Mackinaw,” therefore so do we, oui? Also, there are no cars!! The town is charming, charming, charming AND it is totally worth it to take one of the horse-drawn carriages around the island to see a lot of the wooded Mackinac Island State...
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Alright, y’all. I have thrown down the gauntlet and declared that the US 2 Rest Area two miles east of Naubinway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is THE NICEST REST AREA IN NORTH AMERICA. If you see better, I definitely want to know about it! A charming log cabin...
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