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100 Happy Days: Day 1
Prepare yourself, you guys. For the next one hundred days, I’m going to be bombarding you with happiness. Like, literally, blasting you with joy. Blowing up the old internet machine with warm hugs and...
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100 Happy Days: Day 5
The website for the 100 Happy Days Challenge says that people who complete the challenge claim to be in a better mood and feel a lot more optimistic. Well, you guys, I must be some kind of happiness...
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100 Happy Days: Day 15
Today was the first day of the summer semester. I really could have used just a teensy bit more vacation time. Like another week… or twenty. And I really can’t get on board with calling what is...
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My Summer Bucket List
Whelp, you guys, summer is here. Truly and officially. And to start the season off right, I’ve come up with a whole list of fun stuff I want to do this summer. Because how can you possibly make fun...
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By the time you read this I will probably have been attacked by wolverines....
I know I say this pretty much all the time. But, you guys, I’M GOING TO DIE. You see, this morning, I am getting in my car and heading to Northern Michigan to go camping by myself for the first time...
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The 7 Stages of Hiking Sleeping Bear Dunes
When I learned that the campground where I was planning to camp last weekend was only forty minutes away from Sleeping Bear Dunes, I decided I should stop by there on my way. After all, I’d have a few...
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Go Solo Project: 5 Reasons To Go Solo Camping
You guys, you guys, you guys! Remember how I was going to go camping all by myself for the first time ever and how I totally thought I was going to have my face eaten off by wolverines? Well, I am...
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How to Go on a Detox Diet in 20 (Horrible, Awful, Cheese-Deprived) Steps
I know this post may seem a bit strange coming from me. After all, I am pretty much the last person on Earth who would ever recommend a detox diet as I am pretty much the last person on Earth who...
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Mitten List: Saugatuck Dune Rides
Remember when I wrote that post about hiking Sleeping Bear Dunes and I vowed upon my soul to never, ever go near another sand dune in my entire life so-help-me-god? Well, that vow lasted for all of a...
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My Fall Bucket List
You guys, you guys, you guys. It’s fall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you hadn’t caught on by my excessive use of exclamation points, fall is pretty much my...
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My Winter Bucket List
This post may seem a bit premature to all you folks living in parts of the world that don’t happen to be Michigan. Or, umm, Buffalo. (Insert “Holy cannoli, Buffalo, seven feet of snow??? Way to go...
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5 New Year’s Resolutions for You (Yes, YOU!)
Happy 2015, you guys! Have you figured out all your resolutions yet? No? Great! Because I’ve come up with a whole bunch of awesome resolutions for you. Yes, YOU! Now, I realize that according to...
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I was going to write about my solo winter camping trip. But instead I wrote...
Last weekend, I went on my first ever solo winter camping adventure. And, you guys, I LOVED IT. And before you think I’m totally insane (Heck, who am I kidding? By now I’m sure you’re all pretty...
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5 Ways Curling is a Lot Like Being Single
There are tons of analogies out there about what it’s like to be in a relationship. If you watch The Bachelor or The Bachelorette as much as I do (don’t judge), you know that you can’t get through a...
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That Time I Was Tricked into being a Ghostbuster in San Antonio
I truly believe there are 2 types of friends in this world: 1. Friends who will not try to trick you into staying in a haunted hotel. Probably because they know you will try to kill them if they do....
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10 Things You Should Do to Run Your First Ever 5K (And 1 Thing You Really...
You guys, I did it! I ran a 5K race the other week, and I totally didn’t even die! Although I did become deathly ill for about a week, but that’s another story, and I’m sure that totally won’t happen...
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5 More Reasons to Go Solo Camping
Last year, shortly after my first ever solo camping trip, I wrote this post about five reasons you should go solo camping. Now, with a few more solo camping trips under my belt, I think it’s time I...
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Mitten List: Tahquamenon Falls
I think I’ve mentioned at least a couple (million) times before that pre-travel research is not really a thing that I do. I’d like to think this is because I’m a spontaneous,...
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A Tale of Two Lighthouses: Crisp Point & Whitefish Point
The day after my four-mile-which-felt-like-four-billion-mile hike in Tahquamenon State Park, I decided to take things easy. I should probably mention here that almost every time I decide to “take...
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How to go Solo Camping (And Totally Not Die. Probably.)
Since writing my post the other week on 5 reasons to go solo camping (in addition to the other 5 reasons that I gave you guys last year), I’ve had some people tell me that I’ve inspired them to go...
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