Thread: Upper peninsula of Michigan

I love nice little towns, its so cozy and you don't always have to drive everywhere, you can walk too.

My burger king put in two drive throughs too...but they didn't add any windows....wtf?? It just adds to the confusion!! It becomes the same damn line anyway since theres the same windows as before! Dumbasses...

Originally Posted by Arctic

I figured I could chime in on this thread as I am currently attending school up in Houghton. Aye, the Upper Peninsula is an absolutely beautiful place, especially in the summer. If you like the outdoors, then you owe it to yourself to spend some time up in Copper Harbor if you are ever that way again.

On note of Houghton, aye, its a nice little town. Very much a college town. And the sad truth is that Wal-mart is pretty much the prime shopping locale. We have a mall up here, but to be honest, besides the small movie theater in it, the Wal-mart has more to offer.

The Upper Peninsula is a far different place in the winter. But can be fun if you like snow. Michigan Tech has their winter carnival every year which can be fun to look around at if you are ever in the area at the time. Some of the fraternities go a little overkill on their statues.

It can be if you like snow and never have to be solely responsible for shoveling a significant quantity of it on a regular basis for over a decade. I'm slightly curious, do you actually live in the U.P. or are you just going to school there? I always found it amusing when kids from downstate or elsewhere decided to go to Tech for the "adventure" of it, when half the people who grew up there would rather be living in Florida. Actually the sheer number of reasonably well-off, smart kids from Houghton Highschool who chose to go Tech or Nothern utterly baffles me. I got the hell out of there as soon as I could. Though I do admit, I do have a mad, raging case of nostalgia for the place, and I'd visit in a heartbeat just to soak it all in again and revisit my childhood. Copper Harbor is pretty nice too. I must've gone up Brockway Mountain at least 50 times growing up.

On a side note, was that from a recent Winter Carnival? I know when I lived there all throughout highschool they kept getting worse and worse (some of the main frats would get banned for shenani.gans almost every time), and I'd still be willing to bet they never got as good as when I was little, but I still do have quite a few pictures.