Last summer, our family of six toured the Upper Peninsula. Our second stop included two days exploring the Pictured Rocks National Shoreline. The Pictured Rocks shoreline extends for 42 miles along Lake Superior between Munising and Grand Marais. The park, one of four national lakeshores, has gorgeous sandy beaches, sand dunes, waterfalls, lighthouses, lakes, streams, …
How to Spend Two Days in Upper Peninsula: Tahquamenon Falls, Whitefish Point & Crisp Point
If you’re following our Michigan blog series, you’ll know that our family recently spent just over three weeks in Northern Michigan. In total, we stayed in seven areas of Michigan, with five of them being in the Upper Peninsula. Our first stop in the U.P. brought us to Newberry and the Newberry Campground. We stayed …
Mackinaw City: How to Spend Five Days With Your Family
In the summer of 2022, our family of six traveled through northern Michigan in our motorhome for three weeks. We started this epic Michigan trip in Sleeping Bear Dune National Lakeshore, where we spent three days. See our three day itinerary for Sleeping Bear Dunes here. Next, we traveled to Mackinaw City where we spent …
Sleeping Bear Dunes Itinerary: How To Do It in 3 Days
Last summer, we traveled to northern Michigan for three weeks. We spent the first three days in the Sleeping Bear Dunes area before heading to Mackinaw City. We camped at Indigo Bluffs RV Park and Resort, just a few miles from the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. If you’re traveling to the area by RV …
Indigo Bluffs Campground Review When Traveling to Sleeping Bear Dunes
Our first stop on our Northern Michigan adventure began in Empire, less than five miles from the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Philip A. Hart Visitor Center. Unequivocally, Indigo Bluffs RV Park & Resort set the bar really high right out of the gate! In this Indigo Bluffs campground review, we’ll give you our honest …
Surprise! Five Things Your Family Should Know Before You Travel to Northern Michigan
Before you travel to Northern Michigan, there are a few things your family should know. Our family recently had the good fortune to spend 22 days in Northern Michigan. We explored the Sleeping Bear Dune National Lakeshore and Mackinaw City areas in lower Michigan as well as Newberry/Tahquamenon Falls/Whitefish Point, Grand Marais/Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, …
Essential Family-Friendly RV Gear You’ll Love
This post may contain affiliate links. I will receive a commission, at no extra cost to you, if you purchase something recommended here. G6 travels all over the country, and over the last several years, we have accumulated a list a of our must have RV gear. We use every item on this list. While …
How to Fearlessly Evolve From Tents to Motorhome Travel
As a kid, we sporadically camped. And by camped, I mean, we truly camped. We pitched tents. You went to the bathroom behind a tree. Meals consisted of whatever could be cooked on either the campfire or the Coleman stove. I have so many incredible memories of those camping trips. When Eric and I had …
Ohio Renaissance Festival: What First Timers Need to Know
Calling all knights, elves, pirates, Vikings, and even regular folk just like G6Adventures to the Ohio Renaissance Festival. If you’ve never been, let us help you with some tips as you embark upon the Ohio Renaissance Festival for the first time! Despite having lived in the Cincinnati area essentially our entire lives, we had never …
Hocus Pocus Party: How to Throw the Best Hocus Pocus 2 Watch Party
Hocus Pocus is one of our family’s FAVORITE Halloween movies. We watch it repeatedly every year. Not always together necessarily. With four kids from 4 to 15, it can be hard to carve out family time between school, work schedules, sports, and social calendars. The teenagers especially cringe when we announce “Family Time.” But recently, …