You have no idea how demoralizing this is. Thanks a lot Amber smh.

On another note, I am in the first phase of growing a beard and finally let someone else touch my hair…yes, I went to a barber.

Ok, back on working the post. One of these days I am going to say phuck it and give up…and then figure out what i am going to do with my time. Maybe my feet are cured completely and get back to walking and then running again, been so long!

Theodosius was definitely a weenie lol.

The contrast of the two shooters is wild.

Pacific Northwest is nice, I should get there more. But this weekend is exploring more local Lake Michigan coast in the west part of our state. August weather here is just perfect.

We had a lot of comments back and forth the last time you were thinking to visit Michigan. I am sure they are still valid. 🙂

Again, it all depends on how long you got. Driving early to Mackinaw City and taking the ferry to the island and spend the day/bike around it for the whole day and then the ferry back and overnight in Mackinaw City, I think they had a Holiday Inn Express years ago.

UP is huge! I say the highlights is Pictured Rocks park, you can spend a whole week there easy. Marquette is the city to stay and will find points hotels I think. Maybe a whole day to do the LONG drive around. Maybe spend a night in Copper Harbor if the kids like mountain biking activities. The beaches and water up there is majestic and freaking cold lol.
I think hitting Porcupine state park at the Wisconcin border will be impractical/too far.

Another superb area to drive around is the Lake Michigan surrounded peninsula north of Traverse City. Much shorter too. The other peninsula further in has Torch Lake where some big shots stay and mansions abound. Think caviar lol.

6k is great. But can you do better? Think AA #hint

Post ended up not being that short at the end.

60 degrees, WTF!!! I like my rooms on the colder side but that is crazy cold.

Hope you enjoyed the 50th HS reunion. Amazing how fast all these years went by.

Going not to mark you tardy this time 🙂 That washing machine collector article, I still think about it.

Roman Emperor Theodosius seems like a weenie who wasn’t much fun at parties.

The Korean sharpshooter looks like she’s in a Matrix movie. That takes an awful lot of cool.

I don’t know why but AA has the CLT-Traverse City direct flights for only 6k on a bunch of days in June 2025 so I snagged a trip. AA keeps giving me good value on tickets; those flights often go for like $300-500.

George, any input is welcomed. Besides relaxing and crossing the last two great lakes off our family’s list I don’t really have big plans for this trip other than:
1. Sleeping Bear Dune NP
2. Maybe Mackinac Island–think it’s worth it?
3. Maybe drive around a bit in the UP.

If I do 2 and 3 I guess I’ll probably want to relocate from TVC for a few days.

It’s all good…

Avios, pfffft

Even though there is no price of admission here, just the article about the Washing Machine museum would make it worth while! I always appreciate the articles and graphs and all. Thanks!!

Oh yeah, the Waikiki Hyatt Centric is still #1 bad boy, yes. But since it went to Cat 5 it kind of took itself out of the equation. It all ended working out fine, I updated the post. I took the award, called Globalist line, and used it on the very last night before it expired at a HP in Grand Rapids, we’ll go out for dinner and then take our time to drive up to Ludington instead of a very long drive there on Saturday. Gives me one more elite night credit…29. So close to 30 🙂

Many rely on the email. Like Carl 🙂 It was all fine and free but it went up to 554 now. I did cancel some of them looking to get under 50 but some complained. So, I think of it as the right thing to do. Definitely not doing business friendly things around here 12 years into this “venture”. It is what it is.