We're in the UP. Fishermen, Women and Hunters -- that covers everybody, eh?
We had two days to get across the UP. It was 136 miles from Manistique, and the directions were simple -- take US 2. We decided to take an easy 52 mile day to Manistique, stay in a cute hotel at the beach, catch up on work and enjoy the day, then do a 70 mile day the next day. Then we would be only 20 miles from the ferry.
US 2 has sections of lovely, bucolic scenery: mostly forest and rivers. And noseeums. Deet isn't meant to repel noseeums because they don't bite. In fact, they wallow in bug spray all over your body. But back to US 2: the shoulder is wide and relatively clear, and while the highway is busy and noisy, we never felt as if there was a sharing issue. In fact, the trucks that pass with a huge gust of wind push us along that much faster.
Isn't every cemetery a Dead End?
Here's our room on the beach. Cute, eh? The Internet didn't reach the room, although the owner, who set up the network himself, had a computer that could -- barely -- get to google in the room. He told me my computers didn't have very good wireless adapters and I should buy new ones. So I did my work in the lobby, where I had a 30% signal.
Mark discovered he could walk here. He would rather walk on cement -- or lava rocks -- than that icky grass stuff.
54 easy miles (with a tailwind). I never caught Sue, who pulled the Luggage the whole way.
550 total.
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