I’m not getting any younger and the opportunity presented itself so I jumped on it. Sure I’m about due for a new car but who cares. I knew it was going to be a hippy-fest and that didn’t bother me but part of the reason for going there was for some parking lot picking which unfortunately was nonexistent.Īfter twenty-two years I finally procured a great guitar. Sleeping Bear Dunes is on the lower peninsula but it turned out to be such a cool place that when we arrived at the festival and saw that the Djembe Factor outweighed the Bluegrass Factor we decided to forgo the steep ticket prices and stay inside the park. The festival seemed like as good a reason as any to go on a camping trip throughout northern Michigan and the U.P. We also wanted to go to Mackinac to reminisce about the summer I once spent as the “Fort Fiddler” at Fort Michilimackinac back in 1990. We had been looking for a reason to go up to the U.P. This trip all started when I heard Peter Rowan & Tony Rice were playing at the Dunegrass Festival in Empire Mi just outside of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. Anyway the pasty played a central role in our camping trip across Michigan and Gina ate her first true “Yooper Burrito” at Colonel K’s Pasty Shop in Menominee Mi at the outset of our vacation. If you’ve never had a pasty think of it as a pot pie without the pot. If you happen to hail from Cornwall, England then you undoubtedly know that a pasty (pɑːsti) differs considerably from a pastie (pay’stee). If you haven’t ever been to Michigan’s upper peninsula then you’re probably wondering what a yooper and a pasty are.
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