North to.....almost Canada!!

We arrived in Grand Marais, MN, just 40 miles from the Canadian border, this afternoon ...after a long trek across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the northernmost part of Wisconsin....we were actually in the middle of nowhere. Pretty country, but I wouldn't want to live there (especially, in the winter.)

Our most interesting road sign, to date, was in a Wisconsin county. The highway was very good, but was two lanes, with passing lanes for slow traffic (like us) ever so often. The sign warned "Passing should not be attempted if there is oncoming traffic in either lane."

From Duluth, MN northward to Grand Marais, the highway hugged the shoreline of Lake Superior for most of the trip. We noticed that the hardwoods, in this part of the country, had not begun to lose their shades of green as quickly as in northern Michigan and northern Wisconsin.

We are camping close to the shores of Lake Superior and can hear the waves breaking against the shoreline. Tonight, it will be too cool to have windows open to enjoy that peaceful sound.

Sunset, on Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes. At its deepest point, it is 1,300 feet deep. It can

hold the other 4 Great Lakes with 2 extra Lake Eries thrown in! If it flooded, it would cover both North 

and South America with one foot of water!!

Lake Superior is 350 miles in length and 160 miles wide, and it is the cleanest and clearest of all the Great 

Lakes .....with 27 feet underwater visibility, on average, and in some places ....100 feet!

   So many wonderful sights in this beautiful land, of ours!!