Escape to Alto
Sandra Wanzer, owner of Nighthawk Grille & Bar in Alto. Photo by Amanda Kamppinen. If you’re in the mood for a little country drive and some terrific tavern food, the Nighthawk Grille & Bar in Alto, 6950 Whitneyville Ave SE, is calling your name. Don’t let the parking lot full...
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A Honey of a Roadside Inn
One if by land, two if by sea. You might be a local if you moor your boat around the corner, or are a regular at the bar. Maybe you’re a neighbor, or a first- time stranger? Not for long, at the Honey Creek Inn, brimming with history, here...
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Visit This Historic Haven!
Decades of personal dining, lodging, snowmobiling, Christmas shopping, hot cocoa to hot buttered rum tasting. The Clifford Lake Inn and formerly, Hotel, has that in spades for me. My Danish Grandmother harkened from them their hills. In fact, while en route we happened by a park north of Greenville...
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The Butler did it!
Saugatuck, Michigan should be on the list to be named in the top ten wonders of the world. I really don’t have a dog in the fight. Even so, each and every time I visit, my breath slows, as does the velocity of my steps, because she is just that...
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The Forager: ‘A Real Find!’
Oddly enough, I was in the middle of putting at Pebble Beach when the call of the wild gave way, leading me to a New York state of mind. My cousin, who hails from Buffalo, was singing the praises of a certain restaurant where “Captain Picky Eater” claims he...
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