Up North Scott has its own YouTube channel!...

Winter gives up the ghost slowly in Northern Michigan. We have several false springs before the final, short, and actual spring occurs, lasts about a week, and we are into the high humidity and crushi...

A habit of mine is to randomly scroll Google Maps and look for things. I was meeting a guy at the Platte River fish hatchery to buy some weight plates off of Facebook Marketplace, a fact whi...

Exploring the East Bay trails at Maple Bay. Wonderful little walk through red pines and beautiful views of the bay and the Old Mission peninsula....

We successfully reached our Spring Break destination - Dreams Vallarta Bay in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico....

If you remember from a previous post, our departure for sunny Mexico was delayed by the terrible deicing debacle in Traverse City. ...

It was with great anticipation that the family and I boarded our 6 AM flight from Traverse City with our final destination being Puerto Vallarta and a connecting flight in Detroit. Then things went wrong....

The Syndicate is coming. It's not as sinister as it sounds. The Syndicate is a new Marriott hotel that has been planned for quite a while but has recently turned from a hole in the ground to an a...

I'm a collector of Happy Hours. I have a spreadsheet that lists the Happy Hour specials of northern Michigan and nestled inside was one I had been wanting to try, a 5 tacos for $5 at Dreloco Tacos on ...

Department stores are having a rough go of things right now. Being born in the 70s and spending much of the late 80s / early 90s working in a mall, they were an important part of teenager culture...