Traveling In Michigan

My visit with my friend Laura in Rockford was fantastic.  Three weeks of good food, conversation of the outdoors and the places we have traveled, hiking and fun.  Laura is a camper, hiker and outdoors person extraordinaire.  Her father is also a legend in the dog sledding community and Laura was kind enough to give me  a copy of his book "Tracks I've Left in the Snow".  Anyone who knows anything about dog sledding knows who Frank Howard Hall was.  Now deceased, his reputation and the many innovations in the sport lives on, as well as the love of the outdoors that he instilled in Laura.
From Rockford, I was to head north to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which interestingly enough is not part of Michigan at all, but part of Wisconsin.  It is only part of Michigan by it's attachment of the Mackinaw Bridge.
Because of a prior three day snow fall in the U P, all the campgrounds that I planned to stay in were closed, so I continued on Rt. 28 west until I arrived at yet another hotel for the evening in the small town Negaunee, where a warm room was waiting for me.  Negaunee is only about 149 miles to the Wisconsin border and my plan was to continue on 28 until it turned into Rt 2 through Wisconsin and into Minnesota  the next morning,and then a stay at the Scenic State Park in the town of Bigfork, MN. That entry to follow.  For now enjoy some photos of Michigan.TC...

                                                             

                                                                        

                                                         Laura

                                                Beavers at work.

                         Snow in April is not that uncommon in Michigan.