2026 Vacation: Hale, Michigan
For the last leg of our summer holiday, we traveled down to Hale, Michigan, to stay with my dad.
We try to do this every summer. My dad has an RV on his property, which helps us feel like we’re camping out, and we join my sister and other family members for a big get-together over the long summer weekend.
For the first part of our vacation, it was just us five – driving around Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula, going hiking, venturing out to see new places. Now, it was a big, noisy crowd of family. A capstone on our two-week getaway.
We went swimming and kayaking in the Rifle River Recreation Area, on a remote, wild lake. We grabbed the paddle board and paddled around Long Lake.
It was one of those #PureMichigan settings – the ideal version of what a vacation should be.
The sad part was that we’d be heading home after this was over.
But before that? We’d enjoy every minute of it.
Summer’s not over yet, after all.