We woke up in Monacle Lake Campground in the Hiawatha National Forest today. We ate some oatmeal with strawberries and then headed off to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. On the way we stopped at a local’s house inside the Bay Mills Reservation and bought some home smoked trout. We had a tip off at the previous night’s concert that this fish guy was one of the only few people left in the area offering smoked fish and that his fish was great. We knew we were at the right place because of the hand painted sign of a herring smoking a big stogy. We ended up buying a beautiful huge trout the size of my femur for only $10!
After that, the best moment of day happened when Kenny Burrell’s Monterey Suite came up on the CMU radio station out of Sault Ste Marie. Driving to our next gig in the U.P., music on, sunshine, the windows down, smoked trout in the bag—this moment explains why we continue to tour.
Carmen
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