Ice fishing, Google, pickles and pasties

Storage area

Smile!  You're on Google

Grand Marais, MI

Supper or lunch or breakfast

MARQUETTE, MI - - Yup, we're in "Yoopers" country,  Michigan's Upper Peninsula.   But first, a bit of back tracking:
       What do a lot of Canadians do in Winter?  Go ice fishing. It's cold, it's gloomy, the fish aren't biting so it's time for a beer.  The do their fishing hunkered up in "quaint" shacks set out on the ice.  In Summer they story them in what looked like a poor excuse for a shanty town.
      Not too sure what the Google guy was accomplishing.  The road we were on was endless miles of trees / scrub / swamp / wetlands and more of the same.
     Everyone would like a summer house shaped like a pickle barrel, right?  Anyway, this oddly shaped former abode is now a museum and is actually on the Register of National Historic Buildings.  The owner had a very good lobbyist.
    On the U.P. the comfort food of choice (besides beer) is a pastie.  Think Italian calzone only with flaky crust and filled with potato / meat /veggies / or any number of things.  Actually quite good.