by Papi | Sep 26, 2025 | Saint Ignace, MI, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, Have traversed the great state of Michigan to do a bit of wandering in the Upper Peninsula. This is where lumberjacks and redcoats can be found. Don’t need to go to Canada for the former nor Great Britian for the latter. Also, visited a...
by Papi | Sep 24, 2025 | Muskegon, MI, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, Agreed. Not the catchiest title. Sometimes just cannot find that well of creativity. However, there are three vessels and they all reside in roughly the same neighborhood – Muskegon, Michigan on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan....
by Papi | Sep 22, 2025 | Chicago, IL, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, Those dogs would be my feet. They do have a point. They were under the impression that this series of On the Flip Side would be an extended road trip featuring a lot of driving with only reasonable amounts of walking. Well Chicago is like...
by Papi | Sep 10, 2025 | Manitowoc, WI, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, One of the challenges associated with museum ships is that there are times when they are unavailable due to maintenance and in fact may not even be at their usual location. If they still reside on the water (which most do) then at times...
by Papi | Sep 7, 2025 | Baraboo, WI, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, Actually, the circus is always in town in Baraboo, Wisconsin. The town is the home of Circus World, part of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Circus World preserves and exhibits artifacts, like posters and wagons, as well as structures...
