Now to clear up any possible confusion about going to the Gay Bar. I haven't decided to go over to the other side. The sledders who ride up here know that the Gay Bar is just that: the bar in the town of Gay, MI. Gay is a tiny town that once had one of the many copper mines in the Keweenaw Peninsula. It's located on the eastern side of the peninsula right on Lake Superior. We received a couple of inches of snow in the morning and the trails were in perfect condition. The groomers were out on almost every [View Full Entry]

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When I decided to make this trip, I really wasn't sure how long I would stay. I thought maybe I'd leave Thursday. That would have given me 3 days of riding. Then as the snow began piling up, I told Sandy Krupp that I would leave Friday. On Thursday, with snow wrecking driving conditions and the forecast for it to continue to snow until Saturday morning, I asked Sandy Krupp if I could stay until Saturday morning. Too late; they were filled up for the weekend. The other places to stay in Twin Lakes were also booked. I guess that everyone [View Full Entry]

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It's been snowing like crazy the past day and a half. As of this morning, I estimate we've gotten 20 inches of snow and it's still snowing. One of the girls here at the Parkview said they are supposed to get over 3 feet by Saturday. It's deep and beautiful. Still very few snowmobilers so I was breaking trail through about 2-1/2 feet of snow in a lot of places. My passenger side windshield wiper quit working, so I started out my day driving 23 miles up to Houghton and got it fixed at Keweenaw Automotive. So, after that little diversion, [View Full Entry]

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Since the snow is thinner to the south, I decided to ride north Tuesday. I rode 28 miles up to Houghton to visit the guys at Keweenaw Motorsports and get a cup of coffee. They are a Skidoo dealer and really good guys. Dan, the service manager, has helped me several times when I had something wrong with one of the machines and got me back on the trails. Marty is the owner and I talked with him about news on the new machines. He told me that Skidoo is going to put their very advanced fuel injection system called Etec [View Full Entry]

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Typical of my most recent adventures, I got another late start to this day. I went to the Parkview for breakfast around 10:45 AM. By the time I unloaded my sleds it was damn near 1:00 PM. It was typical early season riding. At this time, the wet areas full of creeks haven't frozen yet so I got to do some wet stream crossings. The snow was very good and only a couple sleds are around so its not getting beaten up. I rode down Trail 13 toward Greenland for 20 miles before running into some very wet spots so I [View Full Entry]

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Well, my 10:00 AM departure estimate was off by 2 hours. I got going about noon. I'm getting ever lazier in the morning. 460 miles later, I'm in Twin Lakes. There's about 14" of snow on the ground and they're calling for more every day. They also have a winter storm forecast for Tuesday/Wednesday, expecting at least a foot of snow in that. I listened to almost all of Charles Kuralt's book after listening to the Bears game-WOO-HOO; Bears actually win a game! Listening to Charles Kuralt, I was once again reminded how travel is so much about the people you [View Full Entry]

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Well! Hello to all and welcome to my travel blog! (I have been promising getting this started for weeks now, and I think its finally the time to let people know what I have been doing. My overseas trip is starting, it turns out, here in the states near the great lakes, WOOFing for my extended family. Its been a great experience and I’m sure I can WOOF any were in the world. Right now I am still in the final phases of my departure, preparing to get travel, and medical insurance, finding a Host in Japan to let me WOOF, [View Full Entry]

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Here's some of the pictures from our hike where we saw: Chapel Falls, Chapel Rock, Mosquito River, and some guy hanging out in the river wearing his jeans with a mile walk back to his car wearing said jeans. He did say it was worth it though, so hopefully he still felt that way by the time he got back to his car. We skipped Mosquito Falls. We were spent and took in about all we could handle of the "wow factor" for one day. A lot of these pictures you can't tell that there's a 150 - 200 foot drop [View Full Entry]

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SUNDAY (pictures of hike on next post) We grabbed breakfast at a restaurant called The Dog Patch before heading out for a day of hiking. I packed all sorts of food to eat at the campground, but the Piranha Flys had a tendency to kill the mood. Our first stop was Munising Falls. It was a little over a 1/2 mile to the falls and back - no biggie. The view was nice, but a tad boring on the adventure side. There were bathrooms and wooden walk ways there and back. Our next stop gave us two options. Chapel Rock to [View Full Entry]

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FRIDAY The boyfriend and I decided to go camping for a week of my two week break from school and to take my former co-worker, John, with us. Johnny is known to complain about not getting time off of work and that everyone gets to take vacations except for him because Lord knows Anderson Printing would implode without him. So. We left him no choice but to take a vacation with us. After debating where to go and what to do, the three of us finally, finally, finally settled on camping in dah U.P., eh! We picked up John about two [View Full Entry]

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