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Columbus Monthly Magazine

Travel writing 2021 to present

Columbus Monthly — Mackinac Island Lilac Festival July 2024

Columbus Monthly — Lost Appalachia July 2024

Columbus Montly — New York City July 2024

Columbus Monthly — St. Petersburg July 2024

Columbus Monthly — Mackinac Island June 2024

Columbus Monthly — Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park October 2023

Columbus Monthly — Fernald Preserve October 2023

Columbus Monthly — Michigan Travel Guide April 2022

Columbus Monthly — Downtown Detroit Getaway November 2021

Columbus Monthly — 12 Fabulous and Strange Places to Stay May 2021

Columbus Monthly — Grand Traverse Wine Country Vacation March 2021

Michigan Blue magazine

Travel writing 2020 to present

Waterfront Dining at Watermark , May 2024

Cool Cruises — Guide to Great Lakes Cruising June 2023

Luna Pier a Secret Spot, June 2023

Mackinac Island Tasting Room January 2023

Holland’s Tulip Time March 2022

Michigan’s Everglades: Shiawassee Wildlife Preserve September 2021

The Secret Life of Great Lakes Turtles April 2021

Lumberman’s Monument November 2020

Tobico Marsh July 2020

Hit the Trails – Michigan Blue Magazine (mibluemag.com)

Michigan’s XC Ski Headquarters has winter in its sights

Lake Huron Hideaway – Michigan Blue Magazine (mibluemag.com)

Sears Roebuck house at Hoeft State Park

Alpena on Lake Huron is culturally rich destination
The tiny Lake Huron town that time forgot
Tobico Marsh is a secret getaway near Bay City

Experience Michigan Magazine

Travel writing 2017 to present

Detroit Free Press

Travel reporting and travel columnist 2003-2016; feature writer 1987-2003. A sample of some of my favorites.

Breathtaking Yellowstone sparkles off season/ October 17 2016

What a trip: retiring Free Press travel writer tells all/ December 19, 2016

Five places you must see in your lifetime /December 22, 2016

Actual cost of transporting that $25 checked bag? About $2 / February 10, 2014

World tourism slogans range from lovely to laughable / November 26, 2016

Have baby, will travel: See the world with tot in tow /May 4, 2015

What 15,000 bells have taught her / January 4, 2015

Empire Builder train an icon of the West / 2012

Travel sites morph into giant blob with few deals / September 7, 2014

Ghostly guests: Some Michigan hotels haunted by spirits / October 31, 2010

Grace note at the airport / 2013 (listen to the song here)

Michigan passenger wins judgment – Page 1, Page 2 / July 15, 2007

Isle Royale – Page 1, Page 2 / July 26, 2009

Greenland: Jeweled hills of ice – Page 1, Page 2 / March 17, 2013

Lauren’s Choice (Pulitzer Prize Nominee; MPA 1st place feature writing) – Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 / September 13, 2000

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