A GREAT GEOGRAPHY LESSON

This weeks travels have me walking the shores of three of the greatest of the GREAT LAKES of the United States and Canada and as a result I have been researching bits of trivia about this area. Having traveled to the wilds of Northern Michigan I am encountering Three Great Lakes. This fact is mind boggling to me. After all, these lakes are huge. They span miles and miles of shore line along the US / Canadian borders. I mean, these lakes are HUGE !  When you look out from the shore of one of these lakes you think you are on the edge of the world. There is no land on the other side, no land on the horizon, no land in sight. Christopher Columbus might as well be sailing off to find India because there is no end to these bodies of water. And yet three of them all come together at one place and that is right where I happen to be !  HOW COOL IS THAT ????!!!!!  
I was not aware of this phenomenon before I left for the UP of Michigan. Heck, I wasn't even aware of the UP !  So this whole trip has been a unique experience. I'm spending a great deal of time looking at maps trying to figure out why this portion of land is not part of Wisconsin. It makes no sense to me why Michigan would even want the UP. Logistically it should be part of the state of Wisconsin and Michigan should be part of Canada. But what do I know. It is what it is and all those years ago when the French and the Indians were fighting each other over land and hunting and trapping and pelts and goodness know what the land was divided up the way it was and the states ended up this way.  Who ever ended up with this piece of land got the most interesting section of property in this part of the country. Surrounded by Great Lakes on three sides it is FREEZING in winter and a boaters and fisherman's paradise in the summer.  Lake Superior borders most of the UP on the North shore and lakes Huron and Michigan share the southern shores as the state of Michigan splits the two lakes.  Such a great geography lesson !  It is a very pretty area up here and the city of Mackinaw, small as it is was very interesting to visit at the base of the bridge spanning the straights that divide Lakes Michigan and Huron which are actually said to be ONE gigantic lake !
Everyone thinks the bridge is huge and amazing but I guess they have never been on the  Brooklyn Verrazano-Narrows Bridge or the Annapolis Bay Bridge in Maryland.  Either of those bridges have the Mackinac Bridge beat by a mile.  But it's still pretty cool and I'm having a great time checking out the great new places.