Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Back From Vacation!

My family and I just returned from a trip to northern Michigan, so this is going to be a short post. Overall, it was a great trip. We did all the necessary touristy things - climbing Sleeping Bear Dunes, swimming (or at least wading) in Lake Michigan, and trekking through miles of forests. Northern Michigan can be a fun place to visit, but it’s easy to get lost up there, even when you have maps. The locals are rather relaxed about the whole street sign thing, and even when there are signs, you aren’t guaranteed that the naming system used by the signs match the system used by the maps. For example, the road called "County Highway 708" on all of our maps was named Deadstream Rd on the signs.  Took us a bit to learn all the proper translations.

 BTW, I’m going to have to find a way to use “Deadstream” in one of my stories.

Speaking of stories, despite dragging my laptop along on the trip, I did absolutely no writing. I tried working on the manuscript once when everyone else was in bed, but was so sleepy myself all I could do was notice how much rewriting needed to be done and so I called it quits. Still the story was never far from my mind.



When you're walking through woods like this, it's easy to image I'm trekking through the Forbidden Forest. 



Or that I'm gazing at the lake which lies next to Hogwarts?

At least now that I'm home I'll be able to work on my manuscript again. Yay!


P.S.  Thanks to my wife and son for taking these pictures.


5 comments:

  1. Sometimes we just need some time away from the writing. I just returned from a vacation myself and I'm ready to dive back into edits.

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    1. Sounds good. I hope the vacation got your creative juices flowing.

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  2. I'm glad you had fun. I hope I St. Augustine has enough appeal to make me forget Harry Potter until my shoulder gets better. Once I find the chocolate factory, it'll help.

    And if you don't use Deadstream, I'll take it.

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