Upper Peninsula Part 3

 In some ways, the upper peninsula feels like a different culture from the lower peninsula. For example, why wouldn't you have deer heads on the wall of a grocery store? Right?

We were told there was a market in town. I thought, great! We'll get some groceries there. But...there were only maybe two aisles like the one pictured above. I saw a free standing freezer case and hoped maybe we could buy some frozen items...only to find it full of clearance flip flops. Oh well. The next day we drove an hour each way to get to a real grocery store, you know, like one with produce, etc.

But there is something very endearing about the simplicity and genuineness of the people and the places in the U.P.

What did we do before airbnb, VRBO, etc.? We found this place on VRBO. (Vacation Rentals By Owner) It was fabulous, a lovely log home with two bathrooms and lots and lots of windows, not to mention the stone fireplace below...

The windows looked out to the forest. Forest our of every window, the views were very calming.

And balconies, so the entire place felt very open and airy.

The bedroom faced all of these windows.

 On clear nights we went out on the balcony. It was so dark you could not see your hand in front of you. Pitch black in the truest sense of the word. It was like being in an interior bathroom with the light out and the door closed. You could not see a thing. And then we would look up to see the most magnificent display of stars you can imagine. SO MANY!!! And the Milky Way right there! In the first 20 seconds or so we saw a shooting star...It was incredible.

And we did not even have to stop star gazing when we went to sleep because this skylight was right above our bed. We could fall asleep star gazing.

Needless to stay we spent a lot of time in the log home, drinking coffee and tea, looking at stars, looking at the forest, talking...

 

We had the internet, which was good because we very often did not have cellular service. But in all the important ways.....we were off the grid.

It was good to be in God's country. And God IS good. All the time.