[Magdalen] Time is -- uh ....

[Roger Stokes]

On 03/11/2015 01:50, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> I'd go up into The Keweenaw and forget Marquette... you can watch the 
> sun rise and set on Lake superior up there... and it is beautiful that 
> time of year....
>
> Used to be a huge copper mining endeavor - giant and I mean it, chunks 
> of copper brought out of the ground. One used to stand in the quad at 
> my university that was over 6' tall and wide.  There is a top notch 
> mineral and rock museum on the campus too. The drive to the end of the 
> Keweenaw is only 40 or so miles north of the university, Michigan 
> Technological University in Houghton, MI. There is also a Copper 
> mining museum, if  memory serves me.
>
> Is there some reason you picked Marquette?

Simply looking at the map for reasonable size cities.  I prefer to book 
ahead and the agent I go through has certain companies they deal with 
but sometime I have to go "off piste" and go through Expedia or the like 
to find somewhere in a suitable location.

Roger