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I am writing from the Back Channel Brewing Company, so named for their location on part of Lake Minnetonka just west of the twin cities.  You can get good beer anywhere you go.  Challenge now is to find a way to coalesce road experience into a useful post.  Carol says that you can just tell everyone that you are living each day to the fullest, and to mention the walk in the park you had today with your dad, who is 92 years old.  We also competed on the putting green located at his assisted living residence. He won. So there. I'm sure something will percolate up for future posting; you can consider this blog post a substitute for a blank page.  I think I'm suffering from writer's block.  Now, I have to post a few recent photos representing our travels from Kewadin, MI to Savage, MN.  I have to do this because if I do a new blog post, I will reward myself with a Ten Letter Word IPA from Back Channel.  I would have included a picture of my...

It's the Michigan motto: "if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you". OK, this is the Michigan/Family portion of the trip (July 1-29 in MI).  I was born in Sault St. Marie in 1952.  Actually, I spent the years 1952-1979 and 1985-1988 living in Michigan, so I'm in for 30 years.  Just about the same amount of time living in Washington State, with 5 years in Maine.  So I'm not really a Michigander, I'm a Michimaine-Washwanderer right now.  Holy cow!   Our trip up to Michigan from New Orleans took us thru Montgomery AL, Nashville TN, Lexington KT, and Fort Wayne IN. In this blog, I plan to reflect back at times, so not all posts will be in chronological order.  Nashville, June 22-25.  A bike path called the Music City Bikeway is an east-west corridor, and Carol and I used that to get from our KOA in northeast Nashville to the Country Music Hall of Fame downtown.  The path is notable for a wonderful bridge across the Cumberl...