Author: jim
Farewell Yoopers, Eh
Yet another weekend on the run. Officially homeless again, as we have now left the Queen Cottages far behind as we begin our…
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Homeless Day 33: Leaving the cottage
Today I’m packing up the cottage and driving to Sault Ste. Marie, where I’ll pick Jim up from the airport. We made the…
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Learning as we go
Or the subtitle of this could be Hornets: Part deux. When Jim posted this I thought that was the end of the story….
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Smoke on the water
No, not the Deep Purple song – just a great contrast between the cold air and warm water this morning giving us a…
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Keweenaw Peninsula–Day 2
Link to Day 1 Early to bed, early to rise – right? We set an early alarm hoping to catch a sunrise, but…
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31 hornets were sacrificed in the creation of this post
Lessons learned from today’s adventures:
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Keweenaw Peninsula–Day 1
The Keweenaw Peninsula is a long jutting point that sticks out of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula into Lake Superior. Copper Harbor is a town…
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Another Busy Weekend
Rather than type my usual lengthy diatribe, I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking. We spent the better part of Friday…
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Holy Crap er… Cat
We were just hiking out of Laughing Whitefish Falls, and it fast approaching dusk. Talking about the beauty of the falls, we weren’t…
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From Chippie:
Our birdseed junkie
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Homeless Day 10
Hard to believe it’s been just 10 days. It’s Monday morning. Jim is back at work, and so am I. It’s surprising how…
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A Superior Odyssey?
Tonight we fit in one of our planned U.P. adventures – sailing on Lake Superior. SuperSleuth Colette found a charter (apparently the only…
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Marquette Charm
Since we were headed to Marquette to go sailing, we decided to head up early and tour the town on our bicycles. Marquette…
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Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere
It appears that a bunch of local businesses have teamed up (conspired?) to beautify their stretch of pavement in Marquette. This gorgeous display…
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This is the carrot
After working hard for the past several months to become homeless, this is the carrot that kept me going. Not a bad view…
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Finally Home! For the next month at least
We hit Queen Cottages first thing in the morning (if you call 10am “first thing”) to see if they were what we were…
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Travel Day
So today was the first “real” day of our adventure. I flew in late Friday night from Seattle, and after running some errands…
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Seattle Photos
I’m too lazy to do any writeups on my trip to Seattle this week, so I’ll just post the link to the photo…
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What about all that paper?
While a friend was going through her own stack of mail recently, she thought about our upcoming adventure and asked, “What about all…
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Lazy Days of Summer, aka Mountain Biking at Pinckney Recreation Area
One of the best things about wrapping up the madness of selling the house and clearing everything out is the ability to…
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