The Ragas Report

Tales of adventure from the exciting lives of Matt and Traci Ragas

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Matt, Traci, and Clark Ragas live in Chicago.

Matt is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, though he called the Sunshine State home for over a decade before moving to Chicago. Traci hails from St. Petersburg, Florida and has never lived more than 45 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico.

Clark originally hails from - well, we aren't totally sure. We're just blessed to have him in our family. He's a "rescue dog" as we say. :)

Here is where you can learn all about our new life in the big city.

 

New Buffalo, Michigan

We headed out to New Buffalo, Michigan this weekend for a quick trip to the other side of the amazing and huge lake, known as Lake Michigan. 

The pictures don't do the lake justice. There are waves (on a lake!?!), seagulls (if felt like we were back on the Gulf coast), and loads of people sunning, making sandcastles, riding jet-skis and playing in the water - it is truly a beach, in every sense of the word. New Buffalo is part of Harbor Country (a region of eight lakeside towns) and is less than an hour and a half from us. 

We had fun and a little bit of Michigan Time. (Menus and signs all refer to this thing called Michigan Time - at first we had a feeling it had to do with the fact that New Buffalo is in the eastern time zone, but then we thought it might have to do with their way of having a little more of a laid back attitude, either way we liked it!). 

Posted by Traci Ragas