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Summer Emerges in the Upper Peninsula

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With summer season pushing past the cold weather, I feel like it gives a new freedom to travel.   Living in Michigan with precarious roads in the winter makes it feel good to get on the roads when there is no threat of ice, snow or fog. 4 Seasons Clear in Nature There are other threats like young deer with their mothers venturing across highways. Farmers out on the roads with equipment for keeping up with their planted crops.   Road crews out bandaging as many roads as possible in the short span of good conditions. Inexperienced drivers hauling huge boats and trailers across the state to their summer camps and cottages.   Truckers forced into their over-over time while the transporting is good. Cottage owners zooming up to get in their get-aways for short weekends to “Relax’. There are ways of getting around some of those hazards.   Avoiding weekends for travel seems to work.   Also, dusk and dawn are times when the animals cross the roads.   Avoiding the time o