I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

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damage your traveler episode 484. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about shipwrecks, 1812 history, and the country's second national park. As we go to the U.P. the Upper Peninsula of

Michigan.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We'll be opening up

that trip to Cambodia in 2016 pretty soon. If you want to know when that's happening, get on the email list or join the private

trip group at amateur traveler.com slash trip. And now let's talk about the U.P.

I'd like to welcome to the show Jennifer Skidama from Grand Rapids Michigan

who has come to talk to us about the U.P.

Jennifer, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

And I say the U.P. and we've already gone into Jargon.

Where are we really talking about today?

So the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is a peninsula obviously, bordered by Wisconsin, northern

Wisconsin to the west and Canada to the east separated by the St Mary's River.

And it's connected to Michigan's lower peninsula by the Mackinaw Bridge, which

happens to be the longest suspension bridge in the Western

Hemisphere.

I did not know that.

Yes.

Excellent. Why should someone go to the Upper Peninsula? Well there's lots of reasons to go to the upper peninsula.

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