Cross Country Trip, (Day 6), The U.P. Lake Of The Clouds & Winona

Leaving Ashland early in the morning... I never wait till 6-7am for the free hotel "breakfasts" as I rarely eat breakfasts anyway and in the summer I like to start early... 5am is typical.
I'm heading to the place of my birth in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
I plan to see just one person while there and then move on across the Big Mac bridge and to the mitten of Michigan.
But I also want to make a photography stop at the Lake of The Clouds near Lake Superior in the Porcupine Mountains.
I took some photos of the shore of Lake Superior but had to fend of the hordes of gnats that seem to be everywhere.  During the summer bugs of all kinds take over the lakes and woods.  And most of them bite or sting and can be a deterrent to staying outdoors.  Such was the case then entire time I was in the U.P..

Lake Superior

Lake Of The Clouds Overlook 

One of the things I wanted to do was stop by my dad's grave in the small cemetery of Winona.  I know that my mom and my aunt had not been there in quite some time to weed and take care of it and I wanted to see if I could clean it up a bit.  But again, the gnats were so bad that I could only stay a minute or so while I walked around to find the grave.  I had not been there since he had been buried back in 1995 and couldn't recall the exact location.  I recorded a video while I searched for it.