Where in the Mitten?

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My early morning flight to Detroit -

The sky was just a mix of magic and clouds.

There is something special about greeting the day just before dawn, and watching the sky reveal itself to the day.

And I was excited � going somewhere I�d never been before, to a town I�d never heard of and really wasn�t sure of its exact location.

I�ve been many places in Michigan before, but in a state that is a peninsula, with water all around, it�s easy to get a bit confused.

So I asked my friend Tim � just where IS Alpena.

Asking a Michigander where something is, always resorts in a flurry of hand signals. Up comes the hand, and the other hand points to where on the hand this place is.

I�ve never seen any other state do it. Maybe someday I�ll have the Michigan hand-jive down too!

Tim said �It�s close to the tip of the index finger!�

And I found this photo:
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