On Sunday, November 29, I took the extra "Thanksgiving Special" train to Michigan's Twin Cities - St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. As I've written before, the two cities have fascinated me for year, because, although they are only separated by a river, they are different from each other in many very significant respects. St. Joseph is upper-middle ( Read more... )

At this point, I got a sizable backlog of entries. I decided that, for trip-related posts, the best approach is to write them in chronological order and (eventually) catch up to the presentish. Which is why I'm writing a post about a trip I took during the Thanksgiving weekend a few days after Christmas, and why I probably won't get to my New York ( Read more... )