Compulsively Aimless

  Michigan is a modification of the words for "big lake" in Ojibwa and Algonquian languages.     --Indian Names in Michigan, Virgil J. Vogel   Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams.               --The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordan Lightfoot Michigan is my happy place. I have deep family roots there going back to the early settlers of western Michigan in the 1830s and over 50 summer in Leelenau county.  Even so, I'm still learning more about "the mitten." Most people from the coasts may not think beyond Detroit and not know the state is more sand dunes, forests of pine an birch trees, and fresh water lakes. This summer I ventured to its farthest northern territory, Isle Royale and drove the Keewenau peninsula in the upper peninsula (a peninsula in a peninsula) learning about its rich copper mining history and stories of the Finnish community that settled there. I want to go back. More to explore....