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Great Lakes. There's a West Grand Traverse
Bay and an East. The so-called Miracle Mile of
Traverse City is situated on East Grand Traverse
Bay. The tongue-twister named Greilickville
(Dutch settlers get the credit for some of the
names in this area) is on West Grand Traverse
Bay. Up through the center of these two inlet
bays is Old Mission Peninsula, home to many of
the nearly 140 wineries in this region.
There are many waterfront hotels and restaurants.
We chose the Delamar Hotel on the
west end of town, but doing it differently, I'd
suggest some of the hotels and resorts outside
the city (although being able to walk the
Grandview Parkway into town was a nice experience).
From the Delamar you look out across
the bay, which is startlingly vast-a beautiful
blue vista stretching northward-and offering
a gorgeous pink and yellow sunset.
Driving up Old Mission Peninsula, let's stop at
Mari Vineyards. Besides offering a stunning view
of the bay from an Italian chateau perched on a
hillside, Mari Vineyards is owned by Marty Lagina
of the television show The Curse of Oak Island. If
you're not familiar with the show, it's about a millionaire
who is convinced there's treasure on an
island off Nova Scotia. He's been searching for nine
years and found nothing. Some people will watch
anything. The 100-percent estate wine (meaning
the grapes are grown on site) is very good. The area
is called the " Third Coast " because Lake Michigan
tempers the air along the shoreline and protects
the fall crops from early frosts. It is why most of
Michigan's wine grapes are grown within 25 miles
of Lake Michigan.
Flying into Beaver Island (top).
The artist's studio of Russell and
Sue Bolt on the road north to
Petosky is in an old Grange Hall
open to the public (right). The
Woolsley Memorial Airport
" terminal " in Northport
(far right).
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Heading north
The original reason for our visit to northern
Michigan was to visit Island Airways, a family
owned air service, which serves remote Beaver
Island from its FBO in Charlevoix (look for our
story in an upcoming issue of AOPA Pilot magazine).
On our way north to Charlevoix, the
weather went south. Well, the fog rolled in. It
did not come in " on little cat feet " as poet Carl
Sandburg is credited as having written. Nope,
this fog dumped right down and obliterated
everything. One moment it was blue sky and
the next moment it was Jack the Ripper London.
Because we could not now fly out to Beaver
Island, it was recommended we stay at the
Weathervane Terrace Inn, which will discount
its rooms overnight if you can't fly out of
Charlevoix. The inn sits along the Pine River
Channel and up the hill from the expansive area
beaches, so it was deeply enveloped in the fog.
The skies are usually so clear here that one sees
shooting stars and often the northern lights.
Charlevoix is famous for its mushroom
houses. Architect Earl Young designed more
than two dozen stone houses in Charlevoix that
look like they belong in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord
of the Rings. With cedar shake sloping roofs,
fieldstone and boulder walls, and landscaping
that snuggles into hillsides, these charming little
houses are restored and kept up by their owners;
some are available as vacation rental properties.
Young is also credited with the massive stone
fireplace in the Weathervane, which features a
nine-ton boulder as its mantelpiece.
The reason for the use of these distinctive
boulders is limestone deposits broken up during
the ice age. There are Charlevoix and Petoskey
stones all over the beaches, which visitors
comb the shoreline to collect and take home.
The Wright brothers in Michigan?
Up the road from Charlevoix are the picturesque
towns of Bay Harbor, Petoskey, and
Harbor Springs. The land does a little bump
in here, creating Little Traverse Bay and more
DESTINATIONS
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