2022-02-14-Mackinac-Bridge-Iron-Mountain: After Skiplane weekend at Cadillac, Michigan (KCAD), I drove back to Fort Collins via the Mackinac Bridge from the lower peninsula to the upper peninsula of Michigan to visit a friend in Iron Mountain, Michigan. What a delightful place that is! It has the Ford Airport, (KIMT), a world famous ski jump (really!!) and that is where Kingsford Briquet(SP) originated from wood scraps leftover from the Ford cars built there. Kingsford County is where the name came from. Traveling further, I drove thru the backwoods of Wisconsin thru Antigo, Wausau, then Minneapolis, across I-90 south thru the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, then Gordon, Alliance and Scottsbluff Nebraska to home. 02/14/22-02/16/22. Also see Mackinac Bridge Authority: https://www.mackinacbridge.org/is-the-mackinac-bridge-still-the-longest-suspension-bridge-in-the-world/

	Driving North from Cadillac, Michigan toward the Mackinac Bridge, 02/14/22	Mackinac Bridge in sight, 1, 02/14/22	Mackinac Bridge in sight, 2, 02/14/22	Mackinac Bridge in sight, 3, 02/14/22	Mackinac Bridge fares, 02/14/22

	Last turnoff before the bridge, so I took a tour, 02/14/22	Colonial Michilimackinac, Est 1715, 02/14/22	Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, 02/14/22	Mackinac Lighthouse, 02/14/22	Ice fountain, 02/14/22

	Entrance to Mackinac Island Ferry, 02/14/22	Shepler's does ferry and lake tours, look at the size of that prop 02/14/22	Back no the bridge approach, 02/14/22	Climbing up the thru first span, the lake is frozen, 02/14/22	Ice on the lake, 1, 02/14/22

	Mackinac Island in the distance, 02/14/22	Logging truck... count the axles/wheels, 02/14/22	Yup, lots of ice, 02/14/22	Approaching the South tower, 1, 02/14/22	Approaching the South tower, 2, 02/14/22

	Approaching the North tower, 1, 02/14/22	Mid-span, the icebreaker has been thru, looking E, 02/14/22	Mid-span, the icebreaker has been thru, looking W, 02/14/22	Approaching the North tower, 2 02/14/22	Across the North tower, looking at the Michigan Upper Peninsula, 02/14/22

	Mackinac Island from the North end of the bridge, 1, 02/14/22	Mackinac Island from the North end of the bridge, 2, 02/14/22	Approaching the North end of the bridge, 02/14/22	Tolls (Fares) are collected at the North end of the bridge from all traffic, 02/14/22	Toll plaza, fares paid here, 02/14/22

	Looking South toward the toll plaza, 02/14/22	Closeup looking South toward Mackinac Bridge, 02/14/22	Looking West toward Mackinac Bridge, 02/14/22	Looking South from the Michigan Upper peninsula to the South peninsula, 02/14/22	Historical Marker: The Northernmost Point of Lake Michigan, 02/14/22

	Ice berms being pushed up on shore, 02/14/22	Look carefully... the dots are ice fishing shacks on Lake Michigan, 1, 02/14/22	Look carefully... the dots are ice fishing shacks on Lake Michigan, 2, 02/14/22	Cornish pump can pump 1000gpm from the "wet mines" around Iron Mountain, MI, 02/14/22	Antigo is on the road between Iron Mountain, MI to Fort Collins, CO, 02/15/22

	Pelican Lake is named for the pelicans, 02/15/22	The outside temperature is -13F!, 02/15/22	Antigo, Wisconsin city limit, population 8100, a little less than when I left in 1963, 02/15/22	House where I grew up, 1, it seemed much larger when I was a kid, 02/15/22	House where I grew up, 2, 02/15/22

	House where I grew up, 3, 02/15/22	House where I grew up, 4, 02/15/22	Peace Lutheran Church and School, 02/15/22	Peace Lutheran School building was built in 1929, 02/15/22	Peace Lutheran Church and School, looking East, 1, 02/15/22

	Peace Lutheran Church and School, looking East, 2, 02/15/22	Peace Lutheran School, looking NE, 02/15/22	Snow berms! Yes! Just like I remembered them, 02/15/22	Gunkel's Bakery and Donut Shop, 02/15/22	Rib Mountain Ski Area, Wausau, WI, 02/15/22

	Carhenge, North of Alliance, NE, 1, 02/16/22	Carhenge, North of Alliance, NE, 2, 02/16/22	Carhenge, North of Alliance, NE, 3, 02/16/22	Carhenge, North of Alliance, NE, 4, 02/16/22

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