CHARLEVOIX — Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein, attorney and advocate for people with disabilities, has a vision of what the world could be, despite having never seen it.

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In late August, Justice Bernstein was in Northern Michigan for a long weekend visiting friends in Walloon Lake, as he often does. Every morning of his stay he has a tradition: He wakes with the sun and treks for six hours and walks more than 17 miles on the Little Traverse Wheelway from Petoskey to Charlevoix along the Lake Michigan shoreline.

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“I can’t think of anything more gorgeous, even though I can’t see it, I can totally sense it, I am walking right by the lake,” Bernstein said as he walked the wheelway recently.