Shucks, I thought you had solved the Jimmy Hoffa mystery!

My thanks to all who have offered suggestions. Since my daughter has only been there a couple months and they are still getting settled, they haven't had much chance to do a lot of exploration. I did look at many of the online "suggestions" but getting input from you all that have actually been there is very valuable to me. Yes, we expect to make several trips a year to visit. And yes, I really want to visit Isle Royale in the better weather. I've always been intrigued with Isle Royale since I read a youth novel about ham radio (Isle Royale Calling) written by Helen Cloutier back in 1957. I still have that book and even though a youth oriented novel, I still enjoy reading it occasionally. This book also got me involved in a 50 year hobby as a ham radio operator, longer than I have been dabbling in photography. With my daughter and her family in the UP, I will now have the chance to visit the place I've thought about for 50 years.

Yup, we're preparing for the change in weather, my daughter and her family had gone up to Lac La Belle for a weekend, several weeks ago. Had beautiful weather there, but the day they got back home it was snowing. Snow tires already on the 4wd F150 we'll be going up in (transporting a bunch of her items such as XC skis, her tack gear, etc she'd left with us prior to the move). We have adequate snow gear, still have winter gear items left from our sled dog racing days in the early 70's. No sled though, those are long gone. We just never made it to the UP for any races.

Thank you, since we'll be there a few weeks, we'll be able to drive around a bit so any specific site recommendations are highly appreciated.

My daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter moved to the UP (Iron River) a few months ago and my wife and I will be making our first visit next month just prior to Thanksgiving. I've been looking at online suggestions for UP photo opportunities but would like to see if any people here have suggestions for memorable photo sites. We'll be there several weeks, coming up via the Mackinac Bridge and returning home via Sault Ste Marie thru Canada.

Appears to be a longlines fishing boat registered under the Australian flag.

This wasn't just a rural thing. In 1963 we still had a wood lined tin box with a hinged tin lid sitting on the front porch where the milkman delivered the milk and picked up the empties. I remember the year as I was going in the army then and it was there when I left, but gone when I got home on my first leave. My mom asked me to pick up a quart of milk at the store and it was in some kind of waxed cardboard box instead of a glass bottle.

Most of my images are just for myself and family. For displaying them, I have several of the digital photo frames that just keep cycling thru the images it contains. One frame for my wife and me, one for my daughter and one for my son. In addition to my images, I add images sent by my daughter and son. I keep them current by updating and swapping the SD cards periodically. On each SD card I maintain a chronological set of images sent by my daughter (she lives in the UP so we don't get to visit too often) to record my grand daughters birth up to the most recent photos which gives us a pictorial view of her growth and experiences. Then I add any new images they send to the mix, such as vacations and family gatherings up thru our most recent photographic attempts. Basically it is an ongoing family project. I back up each SD card to a pair of NAS drives so there is an archive, which can be accessed via internet by my son and daughter. This is a modern version of our old family photo albums that have pictures going back to the Civil War era.

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Went on an elk hunt several years ago. More interested in hunting than photography so used my old reliable Nikon P310 pocket camera, which only has one slot. Took many pictures over the one week hunt. On return home down loaded pictures and over 50% were corrupted, had strange streaks and other defects, pictures unusable. Never had a problem with this camera before the trip, or since the trip. Just bad luck that the SD card failed on that trip. Tried to recover and saved what photos I could. Then formatted the card in the camera and took a bunch of test shots to see if it was the camera or the card. Same problem with card, over 50% corruption. Plugged another card in the camera and it worked fine. Tried the card in my D800, (using single slot, reformatted of course) and again, the card showed significant corruption. Returned the card to Sandisk, they sent me a new card with no explanation of what the problem was on my original card. I've only lost photos due to an apparent card failure this one time, but the photos of my probably once in a lifetime Royal Elk are long gone. That's why I want at least two slots used in backup mode, both raw. If I could get a pocket camera with two slots, I would.

One thing I did right in cars (after stupidly selling off my 1964 Corvette roadster, 1963 XKE roadster, 1960 MGA roadster, etc) was NOT selling off my 1957 AC Ace (purchased in 1965) and my 1956 AC Aceca Bristol (purchased in 1966). My avatar is the AC Aceca Bristol. The Aceca is the only coupe I've owned, all my other sports cars have always been roadster. All my BMWs are sports sedans, not sports cars (although my 1972 2002 (purchased new by me) sure handles like a sports car!).

How can it be unopened when everything is out of the box. Stinks of SCAM

My first thought was Abraham Lincoln, particularly due to the forehead, sunken eyes and nose profile.

Not all Brit cars gather rust. Both my 1956 AC Aceca Bristol and 1957 AC Ace have completely aluminum bodies. The tube frame and suspension components are steel, but as long as attention is paid to their maintenance, they can be kept solid and clean of rust. Of course if the aluminum bodies aren't maintained (paint chips, etc) the aluminum can develop oxidation. The secret is good maintenance.

Things must have changed in Iceland over the last 20 years. Last I knew there was no stigma attached to unmarried women having children, no one thought a thing about it. Marriage was just an option.