The Restless Viking

This article was originally published on October 14, 2022 on The Restless Viking website. The Skeleton Coast or “Graveyard of the Great Lakes” is a stretch of shore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan stretching […]

This article was originally published on November 8, 2022 on The Restless Viking website. “Hey, let’s go for lunch in Ada. Shopping, too!” Chuck’s eyebrows danced knowing how I like to eat and shop. “We […]

This article was originally published on October 11, 2022 on The Restless Viking website. Did you know that plank roads had once been created to make travel easier? As civil unrest between the northern states […]

This article was originally published on July 28, 2022 on The Restless Viking website. Cupcake joins me to visit an island that has been virtually uninhabited for two centuries, even though millions pass within a […]

This article was originally published on November 15, 2022 on The Restless Viking website. The Fire Following a wet spring in 1908, the summer in eastern side of northern Michigan’s lower peninsula had been dry. […]

This article was originally published on October 11, 2022 on The Restless Viking website. In the middle/late 1800s, Michigan led the country in the building of plank roads. Poppins and I take a road trip […]

This article was originally published on October 11, 2022 on The Restless Viking website. This unmarked site, Devil’s Washtub, makes for an exciting find along the Lake Superior shoreline near the tip of the Keweenaw […]

This article was originally published on August 23, 2022 on The Restless Viking website. Gay Sands Beach along Lake Superior on the Keweenaw peninsula is beautiful, but looks can be deceiving. This “sand” is actually […]

This article was originally published on October 4, 2022 on The Restless Viking website. The loneliest lighthouse, Waugoshance, located 15 miles west of Mackinaw City, crumbles under feathered friends. After standing guard for over 170 […]

This video was originally published on June 16, 2022 on The Restless Viking YouTube page. Just over a decade after Michigan became a state, it had its first “dustbowl”. Local’s called it the “largest desert […]