Grand Winter Adventures

Seriously, dude. If you don't see adventure around you, you aren't looking for it. It's truly right around the corner, and Winter doesn't put a stop to it.

Take our trip to Warren on Christmas Eve. We wanted a quick park-and-grab to keep the streak going. Here's one that piqued my interest - I don't know why because it only had 1 favorite point, but there you go. Locate a block north of I-696 near Schoenherr (pronounced Shane-her), we found a little pull-off and a log (the wooden kind). So, in our pajamas (it's Christmas Eve, remember?) we started shoveling snow aside looking for this. Frustrated, I turned around to see this:

OMG - isn't this precious?

This guy was watching us, too....

And these guys moseyed along to cheer us on, too! Can you believe this is a business park in an industrial area? 

Shetland Pony and a Donkey

Speaking about being watched, I felt eyes on me in Detroit this week, too.

How cool are they? TaGeez and I were moseying from Eastern Market (oh, sweet memories of Devries & Co 1887) to Belle Isle, and we decided to take the very indirect route. Somehow we happened on this park with these amazing heads! 

Kiwanis #1 Park: Head to 6531 Kercheval at Concord Street to see "Reading Room," three 10-foot heads sculpted from a boulder that encompass a small circular plaza with stone seating, courtesy of CPAD. Though they assumed the land where the sculptures reside was a vacant lot, they later discovered it was an overgrown city park. Since CPAD artists, residents and volunteers cleaned up the park and added the art features, Bresee said, the Detroit Parks and Recreation Department is again mowing the lawn and residents are using it for events. [Crains Detroit]

After hiding a geocache there, we continued down Grand Boulevard to Belle Isle (45+ new geocaches hidden there every Spring). 

Breathtaking.

Peaceful.

Flipping cold.

More adventures ahead this weekend. We have four geocaching events including Visitors from Rhode Island, Gate's HNYE Freeze-a-thon, New Year's Eve in Frito's Library, and gsixx's Happy New Year Event.  TaGeez and I hid 16 caches for that last one.

We should have no problem earning our two Geocaching.com souvenirs for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

As I said, adventure is just around the corner.