One of my favorite places on the planet is a place in northern Michigan: Long Lake in Traverse City.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a suburb of Detroit but had a lot of open space around.
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.
I'm very fond of Glasgow, particularly the West End. The whole stretch of the west coast of Scotland from Loch Lomond up through Mallaig to the Kyle of Localsh is so beautiful.
Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
One of my oldest friends has a cottage on Smoke Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, and it's one of my favorite places in the world.
My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.