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Colorado 2017 in the Mighty Merc
It has been a long while since we had made any treks out west. Roughly 4.5 years, but that’s what happens when you throw kids into the mix. Part of the whole reason for building The Mighty Merc was to make family trips out west more comfortable. I can safely say that it was a comfortable trip, but there are still improvements to be made to enhance the comfort and turn this into a better adventure rig. Life has been…
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Michigan 2014
After life became a bit more stable since the addition of our first born son, we decided to run up to Michigan for a short vacation. This was our first long ‘family’ trip out and I was impressed at how much stuff a kid needs to travel with. This is only half of the stuff that was crammed into the Merc, thus killing my dreams of a 2 door build: We bunked up with the Grandparents at a nice little…
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Michigan 2016 – Part 3
On the last part of our trip, we stumbled upon this neat park with a decent view: But more importantly, it had a MASSIVE playground to let the boy get some wiggles out before getting cooped up in the car for several hours: I just hung out with this cutie while Mom and Son were running around: So we said goodbye to Michigan for another year, and we look forward to another trip in the future! Back to Trips….
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Michigan 2016 – Part 2
The next day started out the same as the first with breakfast at the Never Miss Café again. After filling up, we headed up to St Joseph to spend some time in the Sliver Beach Area. We played around on the restored carousel:
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Michigan 2016 – Part 1
We decided that since life had slowed down a bit (ha!) that we should take the opportunity to get out of the house for a long weekend. The wife booked us a place to stay in South Haven MI and plans were made to make it happen.