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| Gorgeous waterfall that we hiked up to see, Pictured Rocks | Odd colors from a sunset in the forest. | When Signage Starts to Peel: Wolves in our National Parks |
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| More peeling brown signage, must've been 20-25 years ago. | And again with the peeling stuff...compare with next image of same subject. | Compare this with the former image, this is a fine example of what can be done with a router. |
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| Sunset time at the Sunset Motel where we stayed, Munising. | Interior of our cute room at the Sunset, lots of handsome wood paneling. | Two bedrooms. One more that we needed, but vacancy was at a premium and the price was right. |
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| Vanessa in bedroom mirror, ready to hike. | Cute kitchenette area. Even got a wood ceiling! | Vanessa dips the paws in chilly Lake Superior at the Sunset Motel. |
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| Putvin Drugs, downtown Munising. Great color choices. | Enter the forest. We saw dozens of chipmunks in the space of an hour. Walked to see a waterfall. | Old scraggly tree, woods. |
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| Vanessa at the waterfal we hiked to see. | Waterfall by itself. | Me at the waterfall. |
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| Pictured Rocks lakeshore is beautiful. | Water in lake Superior, Pictured Rocks. | Pictured Rocks seen through an evergreen friend of mine. |
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| Monument Valley? No, just pictured rocks. | I love me some pine boughs. | Still love 'em. |
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| I'd like to work building these staircases all over the national parks. I love being out there and would thrill to do something constructive with my hands for work. Honest work, not sissy computer shit. | Yours truly at Lake Superior, trying to get some sun. | Did I mention that I love pine trees? |
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| Welcome to Christmas, MI! More router mastery. | The Christmas Motel was clean and well-kept, but appeared to be up for sale. Adorable sign and nice little place for an investor... | Typography is top priority at Sam's Shoe Repair in Marquette, a nice college town in the middle of nowhere. |
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| Wicked coloration on a bulding in Marquette. | Weird giant dock configuration into Lake Superior, Marquette. Used to have trains going out onto it, I guess. | Beautifully-weathered rocks near hilltop monument, Marquette. |
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| Vanessa and monument to some goddamn Frenchman missionary trapper hero. | Beef-A-Roo Restaurant, Marquette. | Chillingly-beautiful swampland forest, UP. |
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| More of the same. | And once again. | Ferns growing on ground, so poor, grass-won't-grow. |
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| Old Seven-Up bottling plant in the slightly-creepy small town of Republic, MI. | Ping Grove Tavern, Republic. The town reminded me of something from a horror movie, maybe Children of the Corn? | Alice's This & That & the Beauty Nook had an excellent color palette going |
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| Used Cars sign in Iron Mountain, MI | Norge Town Cleaners sign, Iron Mountain | After being unimpressed with Green Bay, we finally found lodging and a comfortable room at the Cool City Motel in Two Rivers, WI. |
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| Light fixture at Cool City Motel | Vanessa on the supremely cozy couch at Cool City Motel | Office sign, Cool City Motel |
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| Exterior sign, Cool City | Charter Fishing sign with barbed letters...reminds me of my own lettering on NoFishing.net | Rudy's Lanes bowling alley signage, Manitowoc? |
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| Ate a really terrific breakfast at Warren's Restaurant in Manitowoc. Goddamn good for small-town vegan offerings. | Club Harbor signage, along hwy 55 or 151 near Lake Winnebago, WI | Fondy Motel, Fond du Lac, WI |
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| Lake Aire Restaurant signage, Lake Geneva, WI | Olympic Restaurant sign, Lake Geneva, WI | Portrait of me looking pretty rough around the edges |
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| Somewhere in Wisconsin, north of Green Bay. One of the finest signs I've seen. | Sunset over northern Wisconsin. | Bond Pickle Co., possibly Oconto, WI |