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Marquette and cycling.

Gerald Wilgus

Gerald Wilgus

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Started and ended a 20 mile bike trip here at the site of Father Jacques Marquette's death in 1675, here along Betsie bay. He was an early explorer of the Great Lakes.
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Gerald Wilgus said:
Started and ended a 20 mile bike trip here at the site of Father Jacques Marquette's death in 1675, here along Betsie bay. He was an early explorer of the Great Lakes.View attachment 130853
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That whole area is beautiful. For a rather small community, Marquette has some very nice parks, scenic areas, good food, etc. We spent a full day there last summer, part of a much larger trip into the Upper Peninsula. In fact, I would suggest pretty much the whole of the Lake Superior shoreline, even into Canada is worth a trip. A "loop tour" of the entire Lake Superior is on my "bucket list". So much to see and do.
 
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That whole area is beautiful. For a rather small community, Marquette has some very nice parks, scenic areas, good food, etc. We spent a full day there last summer, part of a much larger trip into the Upper Peninsula. In fact, I would suggest pretty much the whole of the Lake Superior shoreline, even into Canada is worth a trip. A "loop tour" of the entire Lake Superior is on my "bucket list". So much to see and do.
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The shores of gitche gumee are amazing. I have been as far as the Gunflint trail in Minnesota and to Sault Ste. Marie in Ontrario. And, in 1973 I took the Canadian Pacific train from Toronto to Vancouver. It hugged the cliffs above the North Shore of Superior to or from Thunder Bay. I think that part of the line has now been abandoned. What a shame.
 
Isle Royale is the best. Almost nobody there, spectacular scenery, wild moose and wolves. You either take a boat or a seaplane.
 
Some of my best memories of Minnesota are our vacations by the lakes. We stay at a out of the way place, it was heavenly. It was also the first time l skated on ice on a lake. You would hear distinct cracking but yet it was safe to skate on.
 
Marquette, MI is home to some of the oldest rock on planet Earth if I recall correctly. It's also a geologic area that, according to some journal entries of mine explorers of the 1800's is home to a certain type of mica schist that is superior in fineness to the best natural sharpening stones of the day. But it's never been mined as such. The famed "Arkansas Stone" would be easily supplanted by the Michigan stone for sharpening steel.
 
Gerald Wilgus said:
The shores of gitche gumee are amazing. I have been as far as the Gunflint trail in Minnesota and to Sault Ste. Marie in Ontrario. And, in 1973 I took the Canadian Pacific train from Toronto to Vancouver. It hugged the cliffs above the North Shore of Superior to or from Thunder Bay. I think that part of the line has now been abandoned. What a shame.
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Maybe they turned it into some kind of trail. The US has rails to trails programs, why not Canada?
 
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