Au Gres, Tawas, Traverse City and Alpena were all places I lived or worked that I actually thought were more harsh than most of the UP.

@EricTrommater That's possible.

Love the waterfalls! Summer time definitely is the best time.

@BeeHappy And my one and only siting of a wild moose (so far in my life ) was in the U.P......the funniest looking horse started running along the road ahead of us...we realized it was a young moose as we got closer in our car. It kept running straight , like a slow gallop, and we stayed behind keeping a safe distance until it ran into the woods beside the road. I'll never forget that image.

@mojo5501 It's those unexpected things that we remember and laugh about later on. LOL

@mojo5501 HAHA I was walking my great dane behind a box store in Westbrook Maine near Portland. I was surprised and chagrined I had stumbled into a field with some cows with the skinniest asses and longest legs I have ever seen. 2 females turned around and looked then I realized they were moose. Me and my dog stood and we all stared at each other for about 5 minutes then they walked off

Summer is great, but many of us up here prefer Fall ?
Summer is full of fudgies ?

@darthfaja I have no idea what that word means in this context so I will take a stab: Mosquitoes? (ha ha ha)

@mojo5501
Fudgies are tourists
They buy lots of fudge

@darthfaja Oh, that is a valuable commodity then....brings in the tourists like a lure. Got it. (I liked the Cornish Pasties and recall some of the best bakeries around! I must have missed the fudge somehow, ha ha)

@btroje that was a good idea to not move since moose have bad eyesight

@AmmaRE007 Yeah i wasnt sure how they were going to react to us