Up North

Backpacking in Lake Superior Provincial Park is the most otherworldly place from the Sleeping Bear Dunes. It is rough, remote and ROCKY. Just perfect for a small group of sandlubbers looking for some wild adventure.

We received an overwhelming response to our summer story request. We sifted through a ton of stories and it was tough, but we forced ourselves to narrow it down to two. Below the stories you can find some runner-up images. Enjoy!

Here are some pictures from our annual Cherry Stomp event in Glen Arbor. Afterwards, we held a campfire with some stories and games!

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Cherry Boomchunkas are my first food product. It all began 22 years ago in a search for expanding my business. I had been selling Cherry Republic t-shirts, but was frustrated because tees were only purchased in the summer—I was looking for something to sell year round.. People eat food year round. I decided on a cookie using our local fruit and taking advantage of a newer invention—dried cherries. I wanted a fun cookie with a fun name. That was the easy part—in a flash Cherry Boomchunkas with oats, cherries and white chocolate were invented. Here is me with a few of my staff in my first kitchen.

A speaker at a TEDx event in Traverse City said that the average child from his African homeland walked to school 10 miles. After I heard this fact, I couldn't help but think of Steph and I walking to school with our two young boys. Colebrook, a kindergartener and Hawthorn, a preschooler. A couple weeks later, I woke my family up at 5:30 am and out the door we headed the 7 and 1/2 miles to Glen Lake Community Schools.