Recent Trips (part I)

In early April, my wife and I took a trip to Houghton, MI to visit her sister, who is attending Michigan Tech. Driving up there after a full days work was not in the cards because a certain hotel decided to stop having a night clerk on duty after 11:30 pm. So we pushed through and drove the full 10 hours in one evening, arriving in Houghton at 3am. It was my first trip to "da UP," as the locals call it. It is truly gorgeous country up there and we happened to catch things right before all the snow and ice had melted (as you'll be able to see in the photos).

We got up the next morning and drove from Houghton to Copper Harbor, the northern most point in Michigan one can reach by car. I couldn't have asked for better photography weather on this day.



This was taken just outside of Copper Harbor. You're looking out onto Lake Superior which still had a fair amount of ice on it.



Another shot at the same location, looking camera right of the previous shot.



This was taken at a different location, further west. This really shows how frozen over Superior still is in early April. The temperatures were in the 40s, yet there was still 2 feet of snow on the ground in some places!








The obligtory Mackinac Bridge shot. It's not the most glorious photo of the bridge that's ever been taken, but I like it. It was incredibly hazy when we drove back downstate.

More images can be found here

More to come later!