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A feast of festivals
You can find a festival somewhere in the Midwest in any month of the year. But summer is the time for short pants and soft shoes—when the days are warm and the daylight lasts well into the night. It’s the perfect time to explore. So let’s check out a few of the many […]
A festival sampler
Pick a topic, any topic. And somewhere in the Midwest, it’s likely to have a festival built up around it. They’re usually annual, and they include the biggies like Holland’s Tulip Time Festival and Traverse City’s Cherry Festival which draw tens, probably hundreds, of thousands of visitors. At the other end of the […]
Vocation Vacations, Part II
I recently introduced you to VocationVacations®, the creation of Brian Kurth. The concept came to Kurth while he was stuck in Chicago traffic. Daydreaming while staring at the countless brake lights in stand-still traffic ahead of him, he imagined what life might be like as, oh I dunno, a winemaker. Or maybe a […]
Vocation Vacations
It is the fortunate few whose real job—what they are actually doing—coincides with their dream job. For the majority, however, the dream job remains just that: a dream. Sadly, many go through life never really knowing what it would be like to be an actor or an architect. And most who aspire to […]
The Midwest’s scenic byways
In a recent post, we learned about the National Scenic Byways Program. Established in 1991, the program aims to “. . . create a distinctive collection of American roads, their stories and treasured places.” The program recognizes National Scenic Byways—roads possessing at least one historic, cultural, natural, scenic, recreational or archaeological intrinsic quality. To be honored […]
National scenic byways program
“To create a distinctive collection of American roads, their stories and treasured places.” Sounds like an ideal pastime for those of us who love to travel, right? Actually, it’s the vision of the National Scenic Byways Program of the Federal Highway Administration. Its daily mission is to supply resources to “. . . communities in creating a […]