Through the woods to Duluth

Much easier day today. Temps in low 70s, mostly, and dry until the last 60 miles or so.
The Upper Peninsula is a beautiful place; the economy appears spotty. Passed through Negaunee and Ishpeming -- hometowns of Christine and David Ameen, the couple next door when we were students at UNT. (I suspect they're no longer a couple,  but then...)
We rode the Neweemaw peninsula to Copper Harbor. You can't go any further north in Michigan (without swimming) than that stunning, rocky, tiny, touristy community.
Nice lunch. I had fish sandwich and slaw. they assured me it wasn't Gulf Coast fish.
we've seen some nice towns. Houghton looked like a fun place to spend some time.
-- Michigan maintains quite a network of ATV/snow mobile trails.  very impressive.
-- The mosquitoes on the UP are dangerous.
-- Lake Superior is huge. You knew that. But I'm telling you it is HUGE. 400 miles long, 80 miles north-south.
Duluth is a remarkably busy port -- even without the showy private yachts, this would be a busy waterfront. The piles of iron ore were a surprise.
-- In Texas, when we think Native Americans, we think of Apache or Cherokee or Choctaw, a half-dozen others.  we forget about the Ojibwa and the Ottowa and the Brule and the scores of tribes that lived around Lake Gitchegumi. BTW, a lot of stuff here is named Hiawatha.