Places off the Beaten Path

I live off the beaten path. I like to go shopping in Marquette occasionally to see how messed up their town is getting. I have no interest in going to big cities and looking around anymore, they actually suck.

I like having deer, Rabbits, Martens, squirrels, and chippies all over the place outside. Not too fond of the skunks though, they come running to me when I go outside thinking I have food for them...I put the food out for the other critters here, but they get full and leave a bit and the skunks do come and clean up the area. We can't put suet out in the summer or hang any bird feeders because the bears will come around and trash the feeders on the deck, They bend half inch metal rods holding the feeders like they are pulling down a twig on a tree. I have to take one bent one off and put it into the vise to straighten the suet hanging rod because I cannot straighten it by hand.

The UP is a good place to live if you like snow five months or more of the year, from November to April there is snow most years, sometimes we even get storms in may. But I would not trade living here to go to three quarters of the country. I have been to a lot of states and parts of Canada, but this is my home. It is interesting to go look at other places, but after seeing so many other places, it gets boring.

If I were to suggest a place to go that is a great place it would be Isle Royale. It is rustic camping though, but lots of gooseberries to pick and eat on the trails. It gets kind of exciting when you run into a moose while walking down the trail. Don't run, just hide behind a tree and stay still, they have a hard time seeing you there, but if you run they chase you and they are fast. I don't know what kind of eyes they have that act that way, but it usually works. During the mating season, there are no people there other than a few park people, they probably carry a gun then because the moose are more fired up.

Not everyone likes to haul camping gear around for miles though, but if your young and like that kind of stuff the Island is a nice place. Copper Harbor is real nice too, and they have some good reasonable restaurants up there.

a reply to: JAGStorm

Have you been to the Coral Castle in Florida? Wondering what your take on it was.

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originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: JAGStorm

Have you been to the Coral Castle in Florida? Wondering what your take on it was.

Cheers

Have not been there but funny enough years ago, I read extensively about it.
My take, he did find a way to move heavy objects in a manner those in power don’t want us know know about.
It was either with sound/vibration, mind control etc…

originally posted by: JAGStorm

originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: JAGStorm

Have you been to the Coral Castle in Florida? Wondering what your take on it was.

Cheers

Have not been there but funny enough years ago, I read extensively about it.
My take, he did find a way to move heavy objects in a manner those in power don’t want us know know about.
It was either with sound/vibration, mind control etc…

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a reply to: JAGStorm

"Tuba City Truck Stop and Country Club" in Phoenix had some fine local character. Don't know if it is still there.

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