Three-and-a-half hours from Cleveland and bursting with youthful energy, the college town of Ann Arbor, Mich., invites us to remember those warm-weather moments — at a street festival, in a bookstore or paddling across glimmer-glass water — when we lingered as soulful teenagers.
Those endless summers are gone, but there are weekends to rediscover the kind of artsy, outdoor and mind-expanding stuff we used to love and always will.
College is this city’s year-round business, which keeps the idealistic culture continuously flowing. Spring and summer bring the bigger festivals, fewer students and more parking spaces.