Making travel plans in the Midwest between the months of November-March can be dicey at best. But, that doesn’t mean most of us haven’t tried it at least once. Especially when we have family out of state.
I haven’t been back to Michigan in over a year and the way the last family get-together ended, I desperately needed to get the bad taste out of my mouth.
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