Category Archives: Offbeat

Road Trip: The Michigan Challenge Balloonfest in Howell

If you're looking for something to raise your spirits, lift your eyes to this Road Trip courtesy Michigan in Pictures! For more on the destination, head over to Absolute Michigan keyword Howell and be sure to scroll down for a very cool time lapse video!

Pics 126, photo by m7k7k7.
The annual Michigan Challenge Balloonfest takes place [...]

Weird Wednesday: The Dogman in Washtenaw County

The last Wednesday of every month is a "Weird Wednesday" on Absolute Michigan, when Linda Godfrey brings you 100% of the USRDA of Michigan weirdness. You can listen to Linda's latest podcasts and read her blog at uncannyworld.com and also check out her books including Weird Michigan & Strange Michigan.
Michiganders on the eastern [...]

Bike Race in a Copper Mine? Must be the U.P.

UPDATE: Chris in Houghton passed along the link to the minersrevenge.com web site!

Edward Vielmetti tipped us off to the Miner's Revenge bicycle race in Greenland (Michigan) which takes place July 11 & 12. He writes:
Here's a novel reuse of an old copper mine - the Miner's Revenge bicycle race is using a 1/3 mile long [...]

Be A Tourist In Your Own Town – Lansing, May 30th

We wanted to draw attention to this annual event in Lansing as it is something every city in Michigan should consider emulating. It is just too easy to grow into the mind set that where you reside there is absolutely nothing to do or that you have already seen it, done it, surfed it. [...]

Weird Wednesday: UFOs over Michigan

The last Wednesday of every month is a "Weird Wednesday" on Absolute Michigan, when Linda Godfrey brings you 100% of the USRDA of Michigan weirdness. You can listen to Linda's latest podcasts and read her blog at uncannyworld.com and also check out her books including Weird Michigan & Strange Michigan.
Michigan must seem a [...]

Michigan morels and the Boyne City Mushroom Festival

morel mushroom by Latitude 45
The Boyne City National Morel Mushroom Festival takes place May 14-17, 2009. This year is the 49th annual*, and the 4 day celebration of the morel mushroom includes a morel seminar and guided mushroom hunt on Friday and of course the Boyne Valley Lions National Mushroom Hunt on on Saturday (be [...]

Backstage at Ann Arbor's FestiFools Parade

Where's Waldo? by murn
On her blog Relish, photographer Myra Klarman has posted Marching toward FestiFools 2009, a great collection of photographs from snooping around the studio over the last several weeks to document the massive “behind-the-scenes” effort that goes into creating the 1-hour spectacle that is the annual FestiFools.
FestiFools 2009 takes place in Ann Arbor [...]

Weird Wednesday: The Joker's Ghost

The last Wednesday of every month is a "Weird Wednesday" on Absolute Michigan.
According to maritime historian Wes Oleszewski - via Haunted Great Lakes where you can read about their investigations and perhaps a second ghost at "Wobble Shanks" - the ghost story belonging to Waugoshance is always the first told by lighthouse enthusiasts and [...]

Motoring through Michigan's snow

Snow Plow by Seeking Michigan
As the wind howls through the state this morning, I thought it might be a good time to shovel out a few stories - you can see a photo a snowplow in Bessemer from the Archives of Michigan over on Michigan in Pictures this morning!
Last week mLive reported that the Saginaw [...]

Fly High at the Pine Mountain Ski Jumping Tournament

The Pine Mountain ski slide at one time was the highest artificial ski jump in the world and is still known throughout the world as one of the best jumping hills. Every year the Kiwanis Ski Club celebrates this legacy with one of the best tournaments in the United world, drawing top US & international [...]