Friday, June 27, 2014

The other end of a long road

©2014 Lydia Hinshaw
The northern end of US 41


 COPPER HARBOR, MI -- I've been to the southern end of US 41 in Miami many times.  Last week, I we reached the northern end in much different surroundings.
 The road officially ends just beyond this small town, near the state park where we camped overnight.  There's a dirt road that continues farther north, toward the end of the peninsula, but it didn't look as if it would be fun to drive.
 The Upper Peninsula of Michigan was a place I'd wanted to visit for years, since I read Philip Caputo's Indian Country.  It was as wild and remote interesting as I expected, and the mosquitoes lived up to their legend.

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