Travel Stories
Smoky Mountains Day Four
Sissy Hike and a Bear I desperately wanted to do the Chimneys today, my favorite hike in the Smokies, but no one else was up for 2 miles “straight up”. Bummer. However, we need to keep up our self image…
Cascade Roadhouse
The Cascade Roadhouse is a landmark institution. We recently stopped in for dinner. It is on Cascade road right at the east end of 28th Street right where it dead ends into Cascade. It has the feeling of an old…
Smoky Mountains Page Three
Andrew’s Bald Trail Another leisurely start this morning. Big breakfast and on the road to a trail. We were headed over the Newfound gap to Deep Creek and the Indian Creek loop trail. Part way up the road a rebellion…
Smoky Mountains Day Two
Two Sickos and Bad Knees When Aaron and Shannon showed up they both had head colds and my wife has bad knees, so hiking will be somewhat curtailed. We decided on early to bed on Friday and to sleep late…
Smoky Mountains Day One
After 4 weekends of landscaping and lawn and garden work in May , I decided the only way to escape from all the endless projects a Master Gardener (my wife) can think up was to…. Escape. So we did some…
Cinco de Mayo
A Mexican restaurant in Rockford? We were pretty skeptical. But hey, our favorite Thai restaurant , Bangkok Taste is in Jenison we (reviewed the sister restaurant downtown). So why not. It has a warm décor with touristy Mexico décor. The…
Bilmar Restaurant
We have been living in West Michigan for years and have never visited the legendary Bilmar restaurant in Grand Haven on the beach. Our conservative friend Mike (don’t tell him I said that) always raves about it, so we finally…
Leo’s Restaurant
My last visit to Leo’s was a year or so ago. I don’t remember much except that I really liked it. We needed a nice place to go for our anniversary, so Leo’s seemed like a great plan. DISCLAIMER: this…
Bombay Cuisine
We have been going to the Bombay Cuisine restaurant since it was a funky little place that drew inspiration from Haight-Ashbury. (Ask somone over 50 if you don’t know what that is.) More on the décor below. They hired a…
Bangkok Taste
The Bangkok Taste that just opened downtown is the same folks that run the one in Jenison, which is one of our favorite Thai restaurant. Since it is about 3 blocks from where I work, I was pretty excited to…