The Restless Viking

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on February 4, 2024. Did you know that Abraham Lincoln had spoken at Bronson Park in Kalamazoo? A sculpture of […]

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on January 30, 2024. Great Lakes’ curiosities include a mysterious gravestone with a secret code! Dr. Samuel Bean had wanted […]

Da Viking and Poppins — aka Chuck and Martha Hayden — head back to their old stomping grounds in this video that premiered on February 18, 2021. Click play to follow along as the couple […]

The Great Lakes area holds many examples of human strength as well as sodden hardship. Sainte-Marie Among The Hurons Martyr’s Shrine is a unique site carrying powerful stories woven through centuries. This site had been […]

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on January 16, 2024. Have you ever been to the Mediterranean shore? Join us as we hike these incredible vistas […]

Da Viking — aka Chuck Hayden — heads to Austin, Pennsylvania to check out the ruins of a dam failure in this video that premiered on November 26, 2020. Click play to learn about Pennsylvania’s […]

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on November 21, 2023. On our overlanding trip into the Algoma Canadian wilderness, our drone had become tangled in some […]

This article was written by Martha Hayden and was originally published on The Restless Viking website on May 21, 2023. Join DaViking (my husband, Chuck) and I as we search for the 33 markers commemorating […]

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on November 14, 2023. Dale Otto Remling, a charismatic criminal, had spent two years constructing his scheme for a third […]

Take a trip with the Da Viking — aka Chuck Hayden — and his son as they travel an inland waterway across northern Michigan in this video that premiered on November 12, 2020. Click play […]