I've only been in Michigan for a week now, but I've already taken away some lessons that will serve me well after this trip is over. I imagine this will be a returning post over the next few weeks.
1. There's something instinctively manly about starting a fire with a fire starter (like flint & steel) and dry leaves.
2. Tahquamenon Falls' mosquitoes are as slow as they are persistent.
3. The iPhone makes a great portable music system, even if speakers aren't great.
4. Candy bar wrappers are not waterproof. We put a few candy bars in the cooler so they wouldn't melt, but the water from the ice soaked thru, thus leaving us with soggy, poo-like chocolate. (We still ate one anyway though.)
5. Hot, low pressure showers work. But they are completely unsatisfying.
6. The Upper Peninsula is dotted with waterfalls, of which we've taken pictures of nearly all of them. Well, it seems like we have anyway.
7. The UP food of choice is a meat and potato filled calzone-like item called the "pasty". Pronouced with a soft "a" sound, like "past-ee". Not to be confused with a paste-y. Completely different, right ladies?
8. Either I'm spoiled by my mattress at home, or my body's getting old (probably the latter). I can't sleep on a Thermarest through the night without tossing and turning.
9. If there was ever any doubt, I am a nerd. I'm camping in the middle of the the Michigan wilderness, and Facebooking and blogging whenever I find a signal.
10. Flip flops are my friend. Too bad I didn't bring them. Doh!
11. I think Rupert might have a bigger following than I do.
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