NPR’s Weekend Edition did a show on the UP this weekend. I’m just shamelessly plugging it everywhere, since it explores such important issues like “Should it be illegal to leave the U.P. off every official Michigan State map?” and “What is a Yooper?”
It’s got some purdy pictures, too. Take a look (and listen!):
Mods: couldn’t decide if this was more mundane or more cafe. If you think it’s more cafe, move it on over. Us Yoopers ain’t picky.
I don’t know about others, but I had to google to find out what UP stood for.
For those like me: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Thanks Athena,
I’ll be checking it out.
Wait…if I come visit, I get to eat real pasties?
Be looking for me on your porch sometime in the next [del]3[/del] [del]6[/del] 8 months!
It’s good to see and hear from the part of Michigan that does get neglected.
Of course you do! Tons o’ pasties 'round here. And they’re real. At least, they’re real Yooper pasties. They make a great lunch to break up a hard day of coding. 
I thought of you when I heard the stories, Athena. My great aunt lived in Marquette for most of her adult life (she grew up in Saginaw) and taught at NMU. Only visited her once (approximately 1 million years ago, when I was about 10), but the UP made a big impression on me.
I’d love to go back as an adult sometime… For the moment, this coverage is reminding me why I’d like to visit.
GT
Lovely tidbits at the NPR UP site!
I gots to get me back to da UP one day soon. It’s been a few years now since I visited.
The Garden Peninsula would make a nice destination. It’s the mirror-image of Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula, without all the tourists and tacky souvenir stands.
Accomodations are a bit sparse, though. Oh, well.
Garden has Fayette Historic Townsite and a pretty nice public golf course and three restaraunts, but you’d want to stay at a hotel in Manistique, 25 miles away, if you intend to visit.
Wow - I instantly recognized all 3 pictures on the main page.
Brian
Pasties - the original hot pocket
That’s a beautiful picture of the Ore Dock, isn’t it?
This year’s Art on the Rocks poster was another good one of the dock.
I love that thing. Some people want to tear it down; I hope it stays there forever.
I grew up about a mile from that ore dock and spent many a summer evening exploring it. It’s a magnificent structure. The last I heard, they had designated it an historic landmark - so I don’t think it can be torn down.
I’ll be back visiting this February and will be bringing my family. I’m really looking forward to showing them around. Very different in winter, of course.
Unfortunately, it’s not a historic landmark. The city talks about tearing it down all the time. Or building a mall/condos/etc on it. They already pulled down the old trestle, I’m hoping the Ore Dock proves to be too big for them to do much about.