Traveling in Michigan can get sticky - Watch out for SWAT Teams
From Hunt's Guide to Michigan's Upper Peninsula
The City of Fayette: "The famous and picturesque iron smelting 'ghost town' is toward the tip of the 21-mile-long Garden Peninsula, so called becasue the moderating waters of Lake Michigan all around it made it better suited for farming and orchards whan most Upper Peninsula locales. The temperatures are more like that of mid-Michigan's 200 miles to the south. Garden's best-known crop today is marijuana - an indication of how economically pressed and alienated some farm families have felt. Don't be surprsed in early August if the normally quiet area swarms with state troopers and helicopters cofiscating pot. Lake Michigan is surprisingly seldom seen from the Garden Peninsula's improved roads. But for people who really like to poke around, the peninsula is a relaxing, congenial place - the kind of place where you could be happy for days without going to a town big enough to have a supermarket.
I think I should travel around Michigan a little more - Although maybe not in early August.
The City of Fayette: "The famous and picturesque iron smelting 'ghost town' is toward the tip of the 21-mile-long Garden Peninsula, so called becasue the moderating waters of Lake Michigan all around it made it better suited for farming and orchards whan most Upper Peninsula locales. The temperatures are more like that of mid-Michigan's 200 miles to the south. Garden's best-known crop today is marijuana - an indication of how economically pressed and alienated some farm families have felt. Don't be surprsed in early August if the normally quiet area swarms with state troopers and helicopters cofiscating pot. Lake Michigan is surprisingly seldom seen from the Garden Peninsula's improved roads. But for people who really like to poke around, the peninsula is a relaxing, congenial place - the kind of place where you could be happy for days without going to a town big enough to have a supermarket.
I think I should travel around Michigan a little more - Although maybe not in early August.
posted by Xana Ender @ 1:47 PM
2 Comments:
At 8:09 AM,
TeaLizzy said…
Reminds me of being a kid at my grandmother's house in Oklahoma.
"Mommy, what's that noise?"
"That's the helicopters, dear."
"Why are there helicopters out HERE?" (read, in the middle of nowhere)
"They're looking for marijuana."
"Oh."
I think that may have been the first time I ever heard of marijuana. The things you find out at grandparents' houses!
At 10:12 AM,
Esther said…
Black police helicopters on whisper mode sometimes fly really low over our back forty (back home). I used to run outside and wave at them when I was little even though I always knew what they were doing. Still, if there's nothing to be found you may as well at least be friendly.
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