by Laura Kinker | Sep 18, 2015 | Photography, Top, Travel, Wine
DAY 6 Kurt and I left Holland, stopping briefly in Saugatuck (love that place!), before scooting down to Berrien Springs for some grape picking. Since I discovered concord grapes a few years ago, I make an effort to come out every fall (sometimes more than once) to...
by Laura Kinker | Sep 17, 2015 | Photography, Top, Travel
DAY 5 Today we left our cute little hotel room in Traverse City and ventured down to Holland. We stopped for brunch at Rolling Farms Cafe that sat on the top of a hill on the way out of Traverse. Again it was all vistas vistas vistas. Kurt and I headed out of town a...
by Laura Kinker | Sep 16, 2015 | Photography, Play, Top, Travel, Wine
DAY 4 Today Kurt and I traveled up the Old Mission Peninsula (north of Traverse City) – one of my favorite places in the world. It’s all vistas, grapes, wineries and great big expanses of water as far as the eye can see. I love it. We stopped for lunch at Bryant...
by Laura Kinker | Sep 15, 2015 | Photography, Top, Travel, Wine
DAY 3 Kurt wanted to check out the Leelanau peninsula today so that’s what we did. We started out with brunch at Patisserie Amie, a French place I found on yelp. We both had crepes and coffee which were excellent. I could have gone for champagne as well but knew we...
by Laura Kinker | Sep 14, 2015 | Photography, Top, Travel
DAY 2 Today we took a drive up the Lake Michigan coast to check out Elk Rapids, Charlevoix, Petosky and Harbor Springs. It’s surprising that I’ve never made it up to these places (that I can remember). It was another gorgeous sunny day and part of me wondered if we...
by Laura Kinker | Sep 13, 2015 | Photography, Top, Travel
DAY 1 What really should be a six hour trip ended up taking my husband Kurt and I about 10 hours. Yes – we had a lot of stops but not enough to make up for the missing four hours. One of the first stops we made (after a quick lunch in Michigan City, Indiana, and at...
