In 1965 me & my friend Danny drove from Houghton Lake to Marquete in about 7 hours on a clear still fall night. Danny had a newish Buick Riviera with an aluminum block V8 with a Tri Power manifold that I think he installed custom . I remember when we got to Seney at about 2 AM, headin' west, we saw a blinking red light and thought there must be a town a couple miles down the road. It turned out that that town was Shingleton. It was so stinkin' clear and still that night that we could see that light blinkin' 27 miles away. We had that Riviera goin' 132 MPH at one point. I think we were both 18 years old. He got about 11 miles per gallon when he wasn't Hot-Roddin' it.
You left your comment 2-something years ago. I just had to jump in, because there is a chance that someone driving that stretch would still be on it 2 years later. I have driven all over the country. Plenty of TX, NE, IA, KS, etc. Nothing has ever given the same experience of unending flat monotonous road. Always took that heading from the LP up to L'Anse. My Dad loved that route, 77 to 28 (running along the Seney Wildlife Refuge), with the chance we might see an Eagle. Of all the things in the UP, that stretch of road is still what remains in my mind the strongest, some 25+ years later. It is like nothing else I have ever experienced. Nowadays in the LP, in West Michigan, there are plenty of Eagles. Black Bear have made their way down here too. Wonderful. Still love it when I get back up to that stretch though. My Dad is too old to make that trip again, but so glad he can spot an Eagle from time to time in the LP because of the work the DNR has done to promote their survival in Michigan.
@@RealzFoSho...saw your comment about the Seney " Stretch " in Michigan's UP. At one time the UP held the record for having the longest stretch of road without a stop light or stop sign east of the Mississippi River..something like over 100- 150 miles. That would have been back in the 1970's.
this was within the eastern area of Upper Michigan (sorry for the one yr later response)....he should aim for a central tour as well as a western UP tour.
I cannot explain why I’m enjoying this drive with you, but once I started watching, the more I feel like I need to wait until you stop to change the video.
Wow! I must say this brings back memories of taking vacations with the extended family ( cousins, aunt, uncle). That was their hot spot for the family getaways for years. Since the passing of certain family members and the rest of us going our separate ways over the years I haven t been back up there in many a moons. Sorry for playing This Is Your Life. I just love watching these kinda vid ppl post about the U.P.
Matt Canfield, , I lived in germfask for 9 months Sept of 1955 to late May or early June of 1956. I was 9 months old when we left. My dad taught 8th grade that school year, there. Lived south of town on 77, in a little white house that had a sloping roof on the entry porch that almost touched the ground on one side. Did you always live there? I was born in the Manisique hospital. I know some people from there. Not to many.
I worked in the UP years ago. I had an odd job, selling novelty items out of a trailer. Hats, shirts, legal stimulant drugs (at the time) and other stuff. I remember these towns. There was a great restaurant at the edge of the town of Newberry. Great food. In the winter, it was swamped with snowmobiles. I had a couple stops in Paradise, Michigan. It was like I was lost in kind of a self imposed prison. But, it has this lingering affect on me. I’m 70 now, with a few years left. It would be cool just to take a couple of weeks, in the sunset of my life, and just drive around up there. It has a kind of soul deadening lonely appeal to it. Lives that have past in a cold open wilderness. A place to have a final reconciliation of the things you fucked up in life. A sort of weird kind of peace.
I thought they still had snow in the u p a buddy of mine is up in Baraga actually pelkey is where he lives I thought he said there was snow there this morning
