New Friends: West Michigan Edition

My time in Traverse City, and now Grand Rapids has been filled with the most interesting, informative, inspiring, and delightful people. I met all of these in the last third of my time in Michigan, in just the one week after AMUUSE csmp. In Traverse City, I first spent a day in Empire, with a …

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Top o’ the Mitten .

Everyone knows Michigan's lower peninsula is the shape of a "mitten", of your held out left hand. I'm in Interlochen, in the Leelanau peninsula, the fingernail of the ring finger. This is cherry country, Traverse City's famous cherry festival, and of sailboats on the protected harbor. The grand traverse bay burrows 20 miles inland, so at …

Leelanau and Traverse City .

I'm stuffed! I've been on my own in my home state of Michigan for 3 days and have essentially eaten any "made in Michigan" product I could find. All those apple orchards I've been seeing are, of course, cherries as Grand Traverse bay is home to the annual cherry festival and that entire industry. And …