If it's a no holds barred escape from the world that you seek, then there is just one place to go : Mackinac Island, Michigan. Here you will find a peace and solitude known in few vacation locations in the world. You can leave your auto behind as you board one of the ferries providing the sole transport between the resort island and mainland Michigan. The views and serenity of the island are immediately striking and eternally enduring.

You'll be wanting to plan early for what will assuredly be a magical stay at the island's world-famous Mission Point Resort. The gracefully designed facility rises from the slowly managed landscape in subtly complimenting style. The structure takes on unique warmth in winter months, when the thick blankets of snow cover the landscape in blinding white. As the considerably predicted snowfall overtakes the grounds, the primary transport turns from bike and carriage to equally fascinating horse-drawn sleighs.

A slightly more romantic destination would be the Victorian Villa Bed and Breakfast in Union City, Michigan. Innkeeper's Ron Gibson and Cynthia Shattuck have succeeded amazingly in providing an interesting escape that is really a banquet for all the senses. The inn's website proclaims : "From the elegant & romantic overnite lodging accommodations to the sumptuous 7-course Poo and Wine Dinners, occasionally hosted by the likes of General George Armstrong Custer, Mr. Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the Villa is a Hotel of all Seasons and for all Reasons."

Romantics seeking a legitimate Victorian Christmas complete with all the customs and traditions of the nineteenth century will be well pleased by the Villa's yearly "Christmas Weekends." The popular events include : Fri. afternoon reception, Friday evening American Victorian Xmas Dinner, Live Parlor Sorcery & Music Show, full Saturday morning breakfast, English Victorian Xmas High Tea, Victorian Xmas Craft Workshop, Charles Dickens hosted 9-Course English Victorian "Roast Goose & Spirits Dinner" including a dramatized reading of "A Xmas Carol" by Charles Dickens and a full Sun. morning breakfast.

When you're compelled from the cozy facilities of your in-room spa, fireside, goose down comforters and feather beds, the Mission Point staff will pamper you with food and private attention till Aunt Edna and Uncle Billy are but distant memories. Venturing outside, you will find the Island is changed into a Currier and Ives-like setting offering old-fashioned sleigh rides, snowshoeing and a cross-country skiing location. Take a snowshoe ramble along hundreds of quiet trails or strap on the skates and take a whisk around one of the area ponds.

Of course, these locations are open all winter long. So if you cannot muster the courage to break withwith tradition and miss out on the family Xmas experience, make it a New Year's adventure . Either way, don't submit yourself to another year of routine and grind without restoring your spirit at one of Michigan's magical escapes!

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