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Jul. 15th, 2009 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogSadly, I still haven't managed to post much about my trip to the Keweenau Peninsula in May of last year. It was a really great trip, and it felt so good to be away from everything but my car and my dog for a while. I'm going to do something like it again this year if I can.
I drove north from Kenosha after work and kept going until it got too dark, and I got too tired. I stopped in a farm field near Pound, Wisconsin, and not too far from a marker at the 'half way north' point: the 45th parallel, 3107.47 miles from the equator, and from the north pole. (I have a picture of that too, of course.)
The next morning, I drove on, arriving at the base of the Keweenau Peninsula, just west of L'anse. There I found the Bishop Baraga shrine that I'd read about in Roadside America.
Bishop Baraga was a priest and missionary who travelled all around Lake Superior, through both modern United States and Canada, by foot on snowshoes. He established five major missions around the lake, and became fluent in native languages, writing a dictionary that is still in use.
Here's a close up of the statue that is the shrine's center point.
I've got to say; to me, he looks like he's ready to start some shit with a vampire. I like it.
Though officially, this is The Shrine of the Snowshoe Priest, I refer to this site as "The Shrine of the Spider-priest". To see why (and for a cute picture of my dog), look behind the cut. Those pictures aren't quite as nice as the one above (they're kind of snap-shotty), but you can at least get context for the statue from them.
Here's the whole statue. The tepees represent each of the five major missions that Baraga founded. It was a nice idea, but the execution is, to me at least, a little bit questionable.
And here; have a gratuitous picture of my dog. I love my dog.
I drove north from Kenosha after work and kept going until it got too dark, and I got too tired. I stopped in a farm field near Pound, Wisconsin, and not too far from a marker at the 'half way north' point: the 45th parallel, 3107.47 miles from the equator, and from the north pole. (I have a picture of that too, of course.)
The next morning, I drove on, arriving at the base of the Keweenau Peninsula, just west of L'anse. There I found the Bishop Baraga shrine that I'd read about in Roadside America.
Bishop Baraga was a priest and missionary who travelled all around Lake Superior, through both modern United States and Canada, by foot on snowshoes. He established five major missions around the lake, and became fluent in native languages, writing a dictionary that is still in use.
Here's a close up of the statue that is the shrine's center point.
I've got to say; to me, he looks like he's ready to start some shit with a vampire. I like it.
Though officially, this is The Shrine of the Snowshoe Priest, I refer to this site as "The Shrine of the Spider-priest". To see why (and for a cute picture of my dog), look behind the cut. Those pictures aren't quite as nice as the one above (they're kind of snap-shotty), but you can at least get context for the statue from them.
Here's the whole statue. The tepees represent each of the five major missions that Baraga founded. It was a nice idea, but the execution is, to me at least, a little bit questionable.
And here; have a gratuitous picture of my dog. I love my dog.
