travel

Horses and bicyclists on Mackinac Island
July 12, 2023

Is car-free Mackinac Island an urbanist paradise, or just a replica of one?

Mackinac Island is a tourist destination famous for fudge, horse-drawn carriages and prohibiting cars. But is it also a model...

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November 24, 2019

Let’s go to Minsk, comrades — a beautiful but complicated city

It’s been far too long since I last updated this blog — life has a way of intervening — and...

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August 15, 2016

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is like no other place, in photos

I recently returned to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for the first time in several years for a weeklong vacation and wilderness...

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July 4, 2015

On camping, not ‘glamping,’ in the Lake Michigan dunes

We were driving west along I-94, through that weird part of Michigan that mixes Bible Belt with adult video superstores,...

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