This is how I got to work today.... Options

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For real.
Since my business caters to a niche market (log home industry), I get to see, bid, and work on some very interesting properties. Today I was looking at an extremely remote ranch complex owned by some of the rich and famous to which I'm not at liberty to mention (or even hint). Followed the guy about 40 miles, got out of the Jeep and into this thing for another 6 miles of unplowed FR, then a sketchy private 2-track road for about another mile to access the ranch. Safe to say no paparazzi are going to find this one. The property has great lore... originally a mining camp in the late 1800s, it gained enough traffic to earn a Post Office for a short time. Later as the mining fizzled out a party purchased the property and owned it for many years running it as a private lodge of sorts. The new owners (whom I am bidding for) have very elaborate restoration plans. Cool little ghost town, maybe 6 log structures operational and in very good condition, one modern and another in the works. I'm bidding on chinking restoration for three of the structures, wish me luck! This is a biggun.

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Wow, what a small world.
I'm from Ironwood (Gogebic County), so I definitely know where Iron Mountain is... not very far away. My parents still live there in our family home. They also own a nice cottage on a chain of lakes (near Watersmeet) and a small hunting camp near Lake Superior.
Half of my friends' Dads worked for the copper mine (can't remember the name of it) when I was growing up.
I spent a good many hours as a kid on the shore of Lake Superior agate hunting, it's popular there (as is driftwood). All of the agates are dang-near polished from the great lakes. Some great rock shops along the shore there as a result.
Man, that's pretty cool, I don't meet too many Yoopers or people who even know about the U.P. for that matter.
Great to know that I am in good company! It's a nice place to learn how to drink and fight.... although I've forgotten how to do either.