Bubble Tea… Excursion: Eli Tea ~ Spring 2017 16 Apr 20176 May 2017 I haven't been anywhere fun in a while and work has been steam-rolling me almost everyday this semester. I really needed to break away and get outside the county…
Chado Tea Room… Excursion: Los Angeles 20 Aug 201625 Sep 2016 Last week I had the good fortune of being plopped down at UCLA for a work-related conference. I've always said that Southern California is a nice place to visit, but…
A2 Local… Excursion: First 2016 Tea Excursion… Can you guess where? 10 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Thank you very, very much to those of you who voted in last week's Happy 4753! poll. Your input was extremely helpful and i really appreciate it. :) People said…
94%… Accidental Excursion: County Emmet Celtic Shop & Brodie’s Scottish Teatime 22 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 I'd like to briefly apologise for the week long Parting Gifts hiatus I had to take in preparation for my trip to Petoskey last week. As only Providence could have…
A2 Local… Excursion: Great Lakes Tea & Spice Co. 16 Aug 201527 Aug 2016 When I was first getting into tea several years ago, I had tried all the local stuff and hadn't spread my wings too far yet. I was slowly getting a…
A2 Local… Excursion: Light of Day Organics, Buddhism and Irritable Bowel Syndrome 2 Aug 201527 Aug 2016 So this Tea Excursion is actually a follow-up to an earlier blog this summer wherein I decided to randomly drive to Traverse City to investigate a bit of word-of-mouth about Light…
A2 Local… Excursion: The Land of Oz, or Tea in Northern Lower Peninsular Michigan 30 Jun 201527 Aug 2016 Last Saturday I was hurting. A mammoth storm had struck mid-Michigan and my cluster headache/nausea/fried senses were nearly incapacitating me. I had to escape. Thanks to my migraine, a long-lost…
A2 Local… Excursion: Tea Equipage for the Forty-Eighth Century 21 Jun 201530 Jan 2016 If you thought today's post was going to involve science fiction, it's actually quite the opposite. Believe it or do not, but in actuality we're currently celebrating the 48th Century of…
76%… Nepal Ilam Estate ~ Crazy Wisdom Tea Room 18 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 FBOP. That is to say, Flowering Broken Orange Pekoe. Ha. I bet you're getting pretty good at decoding these tea rating codes. ;} FBOP is what I'd call a lower-refinement…
90%… Excursion: Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters & Classic Mao Jian ~ TeaSource 27 May 201514 Dec 2015 A couple weeks ago I was feeling a bit of cabin fever. My adventure gene managed to get the better of me and I decided to head out to Grand…
China… Excursion: Thai Food, Korean Yip-Cha & Dragonwell White ~ Goldfish 13 May 201520 Dec 2015 Two weeks back (I've been a little too depressed to write much at the moment) I finally made it out to Goldfish for the first time this year... and I had…
A2 Local… Excursion: Tea Forté & Blueberry Merlot 21 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 On Saturday I had the pleasure to meet a representative from Tea Forté for a demonstration tasting they were doing at Plum Market here in Ann Arbor. I was pretty excited…
A2 Local… Excursion: Unity Vibration, the Triple Goddess Tasting Room & Strawberry Kombucha 5 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I'm thinking of making "Tea Excursions" a weekly blog event. The only issue is, in reality they're too few and far in between and it's more likely coincidence that I've…