Category Archives: Places to Go

Crisp Point Lighthouse — Paradise, Michigan

Posted on June 29, 2003 by Roger

                            By our third day in Paradise, we’d done everything we’d plan to do and several things we hadn’t planned. It’s not a hot-spot for vacation thrills … Continue reading →

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Whitefish Point Light Station and Shipwreck Museum — Paradise, Michigan

Posted on June 28, 2003 by Roger

We spent three nights in a tiny cabin in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We were about 20 feet from the shore of Whitefish Bay, on Lake Superior. Out the picture window, we could watch tankers steaming down the bay … Continue reading →

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East Channel Light — Grand Island, Michigan

Posted on June 27, 2003 by Roger

My family took a vacation to the Upper Peninsula. Among our adventures was a glass-bottom boat ride on the Shipwreck Tour out of Munising. The captain took us past Grand Island and paused by the East Channel Light. The light … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Island Lighthouse — Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin

Posted on July 30, 2002 by Roger

We took a five-day vacation in Wisconsin. We spent three nights in Bayfield, on the shore of Lake Superior. One day we took a boat ride to Raspberry Island to see the lighthouse. It has been preserved by the National … Continue reading →

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Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial — Put-in-Bay, Ohio

Posted on June 22, 2001 by Roger

We took the ferry across Lake Erie to South Bass Island. Oliver Hazard Perry won an important naval victory over the British off the island in September, 1813. The victory enabled the United States to keep what was then the … Continue reading →

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