We Made It Safe

   Two plane flights, from Memphis to Chicago, then Chicago to Marquette, and we ate dinner and are safe in our hotel room. Our luggage made it through fine, unlike the musical chairs during our Iceland birding trip.

   Not surprisingly, everyone here speaks with a yankee accent, a midwestern accent, almost a Minnesota accent. But they are very nic. It is heavily forested here. From the airport to the hotel we saw birch trees, cedar trees and pine trees. We spotted some indeterminant gulls circling in the sky as we approached Marquette.

Map of the Upper Peninsula

   Marquette is a port city on Lake Superior. It is the largest city in the Upper Peninsula. The locals call themselves "yoopers" derived from the expression "the U.P.", the shortened version of "the Upper Peninsula". The weatherman announced "the weather in the U.P. will be blah, blah, blah..."

   We will report on bird activity tomorrow. We got here late and just settled in. Until then, happy birding.

Robert