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Who’s ready for sun and excitement? We sure are, but if you’re not then you may want to stay home because the National Cherry Festival   is almost back! With it comes the annual cacophony of parades, rides, picnics, concerts, and some weird type of fruit that everyone seems to be going on about.

It’s always good to be in good company. Once again, Traverse City is being listed as one of the places you ought to see before you die – and so have our neighbors on the Leelanau Peninsula.

By MIKE NORTON For some people, a family trip to Traverse City just wouldn’t be the same without the family dog. Fortunately, this is a pretty pooch-friendly town. The same natural attractions that

Walking in the Cherry Royale Parade -- yeah, that's me under the big beach ball. By MIKE NORTON Saturday was the final day of the 2013 National Cherry Festival – the day traditionally set aside for

Ripening cherries above Grand Traverse Bay By MIKE NORTON It’s amazing what a few days of good, hot summer weather can do. For weeks, Traverse City’s cherry crop has been languishing on the

Walking on the new Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail near the Dune Climb By MIKE NORTON That was a great Cherry Festival week! Perfect weather, great events and really smooth coordination. But now

Photo by Tommy Lee Byrd, The Great Race A vintage Packard ambles down a rural road during the 2011 Great Race, which went from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Bennington, Vermont. By MIKE NORTON What a