I was a teacher in an inner city school for over 20 years. Of course a school in a small area will work because they focus more on the students! Smallerl areas tend to care more about their children's education!
Man my heart goes out to you . For years now I've been hearing more and more former teachers talking about why they gave it up ; especially in the city because the kids just didn't have respect for the teachers . I hope that wasn't your experience , though .
I have autism, and I only went there twice, but I love it. First time I went was 13 years ago, I went with an old friend from high school who worked for the ferry business, and we went to a restaurant on Market Street, which is pretty much Main Street for the village, and we even hiked on the street too and went back to the mainland. Second time was actually earlier this summer, it was with my parents, we rented bikes and circled one lap around the island, went to some different restaurant I went to, and visited shops on the street and left for the mainland. Next fall will be my third time, with my parents again for another bike ride around the island just to see fall colors. But spring is my favorite time of year because of the blossoms on the trees, and some beautiful ground flowers too, and there's also lots of time left in the year before you have to deal with bad winter weather again, and last night when I went to bed and fell asleep, I dreamed that I was riding my bike on the island.
This video brings back great memories. I grew up in Paradise, MI. My school in Paradise was Whitefish Township School. We played basketball, quiz bowl, and volleyball against Mackinac Island. For basketball, we stayed in Mackinac Island’s gym. We used sleeping bags. After the basketball games, we went to the dances. I made friends from Mackinac Island that way. Many great people come out of Mackinac Island.
Mr. Wasso shedded some light on a person who grew up in Paradise, Michigan like me. For many years I thought that all schools had dances with each other. I remember going to the dances after the basketball games. During those times I didn’t know that the wonderful experiences were unique. Mr. Wasso’s words made me grateful for the wonderful and unique experiences! I’m proud that I had those unique experiences!!
Absolutely love Mackinac Island. Although I grew up in Grand Rapids, I've been on the island several times over the years. I now live in Tampa, FL and can tell you that Mackinac Island is one or our nation's great untold secrets and getaway spots. The fall colors there are without parallel and the fudge they make in the main-street shops is the best you ever had!
My girlfriend lived on the island for two years, said it was an amazing place to stay. Make sure you don't just hover around market Street. There is so much more to see.
Lived in Michigan all my life. Michigan is absolutely beautiful in winter time. Up until the *cough* hit us, there were so many things to do and see in the winter...Traverse City Tip up Festival is just one of many...sigh...
I served on the Coast Guard cutter Mackinac, there was another cutter in the Great Lakes called the Mackinaw, the island is named Mackinac, believe the straits of water are the Mackinaw, 'ac' vs 'aw', a little like Smith and Smyth, eh?
My mum ,Janet McCombie whom I am named loved the movie ' somewhere in time's and made an exact replica of the character Jane Seymour played . It was the white tea length dress with the white elbow gloves- 5 inches tall and perfect. Antique lace . Mum worked on the dress over 3 years searching for antique lace and fabric. The doll itself was designed by Cathy Hanson . I'm mentioning all these details because my beloved mum passed away 11 years ago on Oct 18th . I'm an only child and mum had fond memories of the island and went to nursing school in Highland park in the 1950s. She wanted me to visit but I fear I'm too late. Covid has changed our lives forever and I believe our world is going to see even more. I want to donate mums special creation to the Grand Hotel. Maybe someone can contact me ? I miss mum so much.
They have a ''somewhere in time'' festival each year celebrating in a period correct attire...my heart goes to you, miss my mom too, I too have a doll from my mother that has been in the family since the early 1800's, I often wonder what to do with it when I go home. Maybe, you could write the grand hotels management and ask if they'd be interested in that beautiful doll...the worst that could happen is you will get to keep your mothers beautiful creation, and that's not a bad thing.
Janet McCombie How beautiful that you have such a precious memento of your beloved mother. I spent my honeymoon at the Grand Hotel during the “Somewhere in Time” special weekend that is usually in late October. We got married on 17th October. It is such a beautiful island and we loved our stay there. Had hope to go back for our 25th but wasn’t to be. I do hope you go someday and take your doll with you,there is a small museum inside hotel with film memorabilia and would think they would love to have it for their collection. Maybe contact the hotel now before they close for Winter. Lost my beloved mother 3 years ago now and miss her every day too,it’s hard. 😢
I've been going to Michigan for vacation since I was born. Crossed the bridge many times and went to the island a few times. Absolutely beautiful up there.
Absolutely great job. Thank you, always wanted to see the winter in Mackinaw. Now, I know we can visit. Would be a great experience. 🍻 God Bless Everyone
Flatlander but fell in love with your island when we visited many years back. Had a room above a fudge shop and ahhh the aroma. (Fudge, my second love. My first love are horses). I loved hearing the clippity clop during the day but especially at night. We had hoped to visit again, but life has a way of making changes we don't anticipate. Maybe one day I'll get to enjoy the best fudge ever made and hear that clippity clop during a quiet evening.
So many times I have gone by Mackinac Island on my way to the U P or back down. I think next time I will take a day to just visit the island. Heard many good things about it.
I have always wanted to stay on the island in the winter! I think it would be a great experience! No I have not. I would just like to go there hopefully next summer. My sisters and me took our mom there every year. Mom became ill four years ago and we cared for her up until her death a year ago. My sisters and me want to plan to come summer of 2021. It wi!ll be bittersweet but we carry our memories of mom in our hearts!
Yes I think it would be really cool to stay there in the winter and that's why I came to this vid . It would be wonderful to stay at a hotel that has working fireplace and to maybe go sledding and hopefully go for a ride in a horse-drawn sleigh in the snow
Geraniums!!! That is one of the many beautiful things about this island that I remember from my one, all too short, vacation there one August in the mid- ‘80s. The Grand Hotel is, in fact, “Grand” and the golf course is kind of rough by design. The commercial buildings are almost breathtaking in their design. I loved my time there. Very pleasant memories. :) AND, I’m pretty sure that the hostess is from Angola, Indiana.
@@yourfavoritepolarislander1460 I would love to be able to see the place in the winter time . Would you know by any chance if any of the hotels are open in the winter and have a fireplace ? I think it would be cool to go sledding there and also to find out if they have any horse-drawn sleighs that one could go for a ride in in the snow .
I've been there a few times during the summer. Always had a great time I had know idea what was going on in the winter, This was very educational for, I live in Florida now, I doubt that I'll ever get a chance to get back up there All My Family that I went up to see in UP have passed away. Take care every buddy up there, stay warm
@@gardensofthegods by the way . My Grandparents live in Ironwood Mi.very close to the rail yard. Like 2 hundred yards. I Googled the area. They riped up all the tracks. It's all gone. I remember the steam Engines. And the noise when they were coupling up. 57 59 ? I was very young then. They were hauling ore out. Day and night. Good times
Visited the island a few years ago, what a neat place. If you wanted to walk around the Grand Hotel they charged $10. I gladly paid and it was worth every penny, amazing place with the worlds largest front porch. And I have to say, the reporter is a real cutie!
I've been fascinated with this place since I was a young kid. I would love to spend Summers there because I'm in Georgia and it gets hot here as it gets cold there in the winter but no way I would spend the winter there or anywhere in Michigan. Today is the beginning of the second week of November and I'm in a bathing suit working in my garden at 8:30 AM. I don't like cold weather at all.
Went in July 1992 - first time in 20+ years, said natives, that several nights dipped into freezing temps 🥶 and during the days high 40s to low 50s. We had to buy jackets! Beautiful vacation otherwise.
I don't think I saw anybody wearing a mackinaw in the entire piece. Maybe I wasn't paying attention. I discovered these heavy wool jackets rather late in life. If you're out moving/working/hunting in the cold, they're tough to beat, and for hunting, they're silent, you won't melt a hole in them from a stray spark around the camp fire, they breathe, they shed water, ...
For people pushing a wheel chair in the snow has to be ruff living in snow plus the metal wheelchair is colder than what people don't know it's reverse in the summer time the metal from the wheelchair gets hotter than what any one else feels.
I have been there years ago when we were stationed at KI Sawyer AFB outside of Marquette and LOVED the island. That was interesting to see the island in the winter. If I grew up on that island I would have gone insane during the winters there, except I would have loved the snowmobiles. Well, we had snowmobiles and a private ski hill at KI Sawyer and I loved that. So, if I had lived on Mackinac Island at the same age I was at KI Sawyer, then I would be okay, but as a Junior and Senior in high school, I would have gone out of my mind. I thought the rule there was no motor vehicles-- I get the maintenance and emergency vehicles, but snowmobiles don't count? Wouldn't they be allowed to drive a golf cart around the island? I don't remember. There is far less charm to a golf cart than riding in a carriage, but still.
@@baileyyjanette6294 Hey Baily...they used electric carts during tourist season when I was there. At least Bell service from Mission Point Resort did. Upon customer request but otherwise you could call a taxi or tote your luggage yourself from the docks
Yoosta be a yooper. The island was always awesome. I was there last in 2019 after the Macinac Bridge walk and was disappointed. Employees on the island were like begging for tips no matter what they did. Didn't used to be that way. Decided then I would not go back. P.S. a yooper is someone who grew up in the Upper Peninsula.
Once a Yooper, always a Yooper. I was born in Marquette, Michigan. Even though I live in Chicago, I still think of myself a Yooper. I hope that you think of yourself as a Yooper too.
What do you think has changed that the workers all over the island were begging for tips ? I mean , yes , the economy has been getting bad ... even before covid . Can you explain a little bit more ... do you mean every counter you were at , had the tip jar ? ... and that it didn't always used to be like that ?
Enjoyed biking around it a few times last year when we took our UP trip. We found the construction dock and lots of tire tracks from there into the back roads, so we figured they allowed construction vehicles on some roads.
Why? A person who likes to use the "toys" of snowplowing vehicles, check out the snowplowing at the National Parks here in the United States. One example is the "Going to the Sun Road" in Glacier National Park, Montana. On the "Big Drift Area" it has been as much as 90 FEET deep of snow and rock debris from avalanches. That's just from one winter season.
If you live on the island your family has bucks. Houses are expensive because you're on an island. Kids that go to school there get personal learning with only a small amount of people.
One time stop...Local business ripped off skin for any step. $31 for Ferry, $15.50 for Mackinac Fort , $10 just enter to Grand Hotel.....Cup of tea is $4. Local ristorante charge extra for use a credit card...No more for me.
I've been to the island a couple of times. The one thing I always wanted to know is how do the people get their groceries to the island? They don't have a Kroger or a Walmart store to shop 🤔.
Also people can shop off island and just take the ferry back, and don't forget Amazon! You can get it delivered but it will cost you! But most familys just have a very well stocked pantry that they rely on during the long winter.
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Looks like this is popping up in everyone's feed after 2 years sooo who's with me hehe
Me as well
Who's from Michigan who had this recommended? I am.
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I was a teacher in an inner city school for over 20 years. Of course a school in a small area will work because they focus more on the students! Smallerl areas tend to care more about their children's education!
Man my heart goes out to you .
For years now I've been hearing more and more former teachers talking about why they gave it up ; especially in the city because the kids just didn't have respect for the teachers .
I hope that wasn't your experience , though .
Love it!! Just up that way this past weekend. Such a lovely experience, every time! Unmatched ❤
I have autism, and I only went there twice, but I love it. First time I went was 13 years ago, I went with an old friend from high school who worked for the ferry business, and we went to a restaurant on Market Street, which is pretty much Main Street for the village, and we even hiked on the street too and went back to the mainland. Second time was actually earlier this summer, it was with my parents, we rented bikes and circled one lap around the island, went to some different restaurant I went to, and visited shops on the street and left for the mainland. Next fall will be my third time, with my parents again for another bike ride around the island just to see fall colors. But spring is my favorite time of year because of the blossoms on the trees, and some beautiful ground flowers too, and there's also lots of time left in the year before you have to deal with bad winter weather again, and last night when I went to bed and fell asleep, I dreamed that I was riding my bike on the island.
Thanks for telling your story about UP Mi I like reading peoples experiences from this area.
@@deansaylor9164 My pleasure.
Pretty cool but what brought me to this video is I would love to find out if they offer horse-drawn sleigh rides in the winter snow .
@@gardensofthegods I don't know, I only went there when it was summer, so that I can't help you with even if I wanted to.
I have visited this beautiful ❤️ place in August 2019,,, very good,, from Goa,India
What a beautiful island ! Seems like the perfect place for raising a family on a homestead & homeschool.
My grandfather used to take me to Mackinac every summer. It is a really nice island and a lot of fun for day trips.
I was raised there and now I eat live lizards to sustain my dark energy.
The land stays in the families. Only very wealthy can live there now. Such a shame
@@cglover2141 its actually a good thing, more poverty equals more crime
@@cglover2141 actually that's not true! We went there this summer and we talked to a local and its actually pretty affordable.
I spent many years in Petoskey. I've been to Mackinaw Island a few times. Its so cool to see what the off season looks like. Thanks.
I love Petoskey!! Return every year to camp.
This video brings back great memories. I grew up in Paradise, MI. My school in Paradise was Whitefish Township School. We played basketball, quiz bowl, and volleyball against Mackinac Island. For basketball, we stayed in Mackinac Island’s gym. We used sleeping bags. After the basketball games, we went to the dances. I made friends from Mackinac Island that way. Many great people come out of Mackinac Island.
Wow - Just when you thought Macinac Island could not get any more beautiful - You go and send us this wonderful video ! - Thankyou !
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Those sleepy kids on their way to school who weren't awake yet were so cute and funny.
That one kid who did want to be in the video was hilarious.
What a neat life in a beautiful state!
What a beautiful life, they will look back and be very grateful.
Mr. Wasso shedded some light on a person who grew up in Paradise, Michigan like me. For many years I thought that all schools had dances with each other. I remember going to the dances after the basketball games. During those times I didn’t know that the wonderful experiences were unique. Mr. Wasso’s words made me grateful for the wonderful and unique experiences! I’m proud that I had those unique experiences!!
Corey Adkins did a terrific job on this story! I recieved an enlightenment about the island.I did not know the community existed! Pretty neat!
They should have a couple JDM Honda Acty trucks for transporting equipment and materials for island maintenance. Perfect size for the area.
Absolutely love Mackinac Island. Although I grew up in Grand Rapids, I've been on the island several times over the years. I now live in Tampa, FL and can tell you that Mackinac Island is one or our nation's great untold secrets and getaway spots. The fall colors there are without parallel and the fudge they make in the main-street shops is the best you ever had!
I agree with you on all parts!!
God.. I want to go... I've never been to that part of the Country... But I love Grumpy Old Men (movie)
Al Perrin Typical tell all flatlander.
@@hoppes9658 Of course!
Fun fact.. I was very surprised to find a Mackinac Island fudge shop in Sedona, Az.. I bought some for my Phoenix transplant from Michigan friend.
Been there 4 times! The Grand Hotel has the largest single piece of carpeting in the world for it's lobby.
My girlfriend lived on the island for two years, said it was an amazing place to stay. Make sure you don't just hover around market Street. There is so much more to see.
In a perfect world , everyone would experience that life .
Years ago +-40, visited at the end of the season with my ex. Chill in the air not very crowded. It was a nice experience. Go for visit.
Lived in Michigan all my life. Michigan is absolutely beautiful in winter time. Up until the *cough* hit us, there were so many things to do and see in the winter...Traverse City Tip up Festival is just one of many...sigh...
I served on the Coast Guard cutter Mackinac, there was another cutter in the Great Lakes called the Mackinaw, the island is named Mackinac, believe the straits of water are the Mackinaw, 'ac' vs 'aw', a little like Smith and Smyth, eh?
It’s THE BEST in the winter. Everybody is MUCH friendlier in the winter.
4 kids in a class.. what an amazing student teacher ratio ...
Never thought I needed this information...until now
Got married on Mackinac Island and typically visit a couple times a year. Bucket list is a visit for Christmas.
Great gem of Michigan !!
I made a Mackinac Island Christmas video! Its on my channel! Go check it out :)
Great video, I’ve had some great memories there. Thanks for sharing.
I've been there one time back in 2019 it was a beautiful experience!
My mum ,Janet McCombie whom I am named loved the movie ' somewhere in time's and made an exact replica of the character Jane Seymour played . It was the white tea length dress with the white elbow gloves- 5 inches tall and perfect. Antique lace . Mum worked on the dress over 3 years searching for antique lace and fabric. The doll itself was designed by Cathy Hanson . I'm mentioning all these details because my beloved mum passed away 11 years ago on Oct 18th . I'm an only child and mum had fond memories of the island and went to nursing school in Highland park in the 1950s. She wanted me to visit but I fear I'm too late. Covid has changed our lives forever and I believe our world is going to see even more. I want to donate mums special creation to the Grand Hotel. Maybe someone can contact me ? I miss mum so much.
They have a ''somewhere in time'' festival each year celebrating in a period correct attire...my heart goes to you, miss my mom too, I too have a doll from my mother that has been in the family since the early 1800's, I often wonder what to do with it when I go home. Maybe, you could write the grand hotels management and ask if they'd be interested in that beautiful doll...the worst that could happen is you will get to keep your mothers beautiful creation, and that's not a bad thing.
Janet McCombie How beautiful that you have such a precious memento of your beloved mother. I spent my honeymoon at the Grand Hotel during the “Somewhere in Time” special weekend that is usually in late October. We got married on 17th October. It is such a beautiful island and we loved our stay there. Had hope to go back for our 25th but wasn’t to be. I do hope you go someday and take your doll with you,there is a small museum inside hotel with film memorabilia and would think they would love to have it for their collection. Maybe contact the hotel now before they close for Winter. Lost my beloved mother 3 years ago now and miss her every day too,it’s hard. 😢
Mom's will never be forgotten! Rip. God bless everyone
@Janet McCombie
Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island
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Janet, I believe this coming week-end is the Somewhere In Time event at The Grand. Just visited the island. Wish I could have stayed another week.
I've been going to Michigan for vacation since I was born. Crossed the bridge many times and went to the island a few times. Absolutely beautiful up there.
Thank You For Sharing ❤️
" You sorta have to get along" Pretty much how one lives in the UP!
Absolutely great job. Thank you, always wanted to see the winter in Mackinaw. Now, I know we can visit. Would be a great experience. 🍻
God Bless Everyone
Yes that's what I was looking forward to see what it's like there in the winter and to find out if they have any kind of horse-drawn sleigh rides.
Flatlander but fell in love with your island when we visited many years back. Had a room above a fudge shop and ahhh the aroma. (Fudge, my second love. My first love are horses). I loved hearing the clippity clop during the day but especially at night. We had hoped to visit again, but life has a way of making changes we don't anticipate. Maybe one day I'll get to enjoy the best fudge ever made and hear that clippity clop during a quiet evening.
you mean f.i.b.?
I would love to go to that Island sometime but I would love to also be there in the winter if I could stay at a hotel that has a big fireplace
So many times I have gone by Mackinac Island on my way to the U P or back down. I think next time I will take a day to just visit the island. Heard many good things about it.
Beautiful place! Pretty amazing in summer, too!
I always wanted to go there.
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I have always wanted to stay on the island in the winter! I think it would be a great experience! No I have not. I would just like to go there hopefully next summer. My sisters and me took our mom there every year. Mom became ill four years ago and we cared for her up until her death a year ago. My sisters and me want to plan to come summer of 2021. It wi!ll be bittersweet but we carry our memories of mom in our hearts!
I agree.
Yes I think it would be really cool to stay there in the winter and that's why I came to this vid .
It would be wonderful to stay at a hotel that has working fireplace and to maybe go sledding and hopefully go for a ride in a horse-drawn sleigh in the snow
I lived in Armada MI for 6 yrs. Was kinda like am island. Other than my wife, people were kool!
Great report. Well done.
I visited there 3 years ago with my best friend before he passed, I miss this beautiful island so bad
Excellent report!!!
Geraniums!!! That is one of the many beautiful things about this island that I remember from my one, all too short, vacation there one August in the mid- ‘80s. The Grand Hotel is, in fact, “Grand” and the golf course is kind of rough by design. The commercial buildings are almost breathtaking in their design. I loved my time there. Very pleasant memories. :) AND, I’m pretty sure that the hostess is from Angola, Indiana.
I dunno why this is in my recommendation, but me and my wife went there few years ago and we said we will be back when we are old . So nice
JJ, it's my wife and myself went there...... Or my wife and I went there...... You didn't learn English?
loved It , Lovely video ...please make more videos
I love that island...Beautiful...
Thank you! I live there. It’s always nice to see people complimenting my home!
@@yourfavoritepolarislander1460 I would love to be able to see the place in the winter time .
Would you know by any chance if any of the hotels are open in the winter and have a fireplace ?
I think it would be cool to go sledding there and also to find out if they have any horse-drawn sleighs that one could go for a ride in in the snow .
I've been there a few times during the summer. Always had a great time
I had know idea what was going on in the winter,
This was very educational for,
I live in Florida now, I doubt that I'll ever get a chance to get back up there
All My Family that I went up to see in UP have passed away.
Take care every buddy up there, stay warm
Very sorry to hear that and yes I have lost a lot of people also .
@@gardensofthegods by the way . My Grandparents live in Ironwood Mi.very close to the rail yard. Like 2 hundred yards.
I Googled the area. They riped up all the tracks.
It's all gone.
I remember the steam Engines. And the noise when they were coupling up.
57 59 ? I was very young then.
They were hauling ore out.
Day and night. Good times
Lovely for the visitors but a tough place to live. Expensive for everyone.
Somebody did say it's expensive to live there
Visited the island a few years ago, what a neat place. If you wanted to walk around the Grand Hotel they charged $10. I gladly paid and it was worth every penny, amazing place with the worlds largest front porch.
And I have to say, the reporter is a real cutie!
Pretty, Young Lady. 😁
Looks like a wonderful place to live or visit!
This was cool to watch, I love Mackinac island
Such a bubbly personality she has
Absolutely love the island would love to live there anybody go to work pick me
Just when I thought that it wouldn't get better.
great video, nice narrative
I’d love to live this way but🇨🇦 , looks great to me still ! 🤓
Awesome environment.
I've been fascinated with this place since I was a young kid. I would love to spend Summers there because I'm in Georgia and it gets hot here as it gets cold there in the winter but no way I would spend the winter there or anywhere in Michigan. Today is the beginning of the second week of November and I'm in a bathing suit working in my garden at 8:30 AM. I don't like cold weather at all.
Went in July 1992 - first time in 20+ years, said natives, that several nights dipped into freezing temps 🥶 and during the days high 40s to low 50s. We had to buy jackets! Beautiful vacation otherwise.
I don't think I saw anybody wearing a mackinaw in the entire piece. Maybe I wasn't paying attention. I discovered these heavy wool jackets rather late in life. If you're out moving/working/hunting in the cold, they're tough to beat, and for hunting, they're silent, you won't melt a hole in them from a stray spark around the camp fire, they breathe, they shed water, ...
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed
its a give and take arrangement, just don't take more than you can handle, 33 years and we are very happy that way
Looks great!
I've been there two years ago and love the place so much,it's totally opposite of where I am right now(desert)❄️🌞🇵🇭🇰🇼
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For people pushing a wheel chair in the snow has to be ruff living in snow plus the metal wheelchair is colder than what people don't know it's reverse in the summer time the metal from the wheelchair gets hotter than what any one else feels.
Very nice to see these conditions still exist.
Honestly I had no idea, would love to raise my kids there,
Fudge. Nobody said anything about the fudge!
Have to wait for spring for fudge.
Or taffy
Pasties up in Naubinway...yummy!
I've only been to the island in the summer, but it looks very nice in the winter as well!
Thanks for your explanation.. good job.. sw Michigan grandpa type guy..
The school looks fun!!
If this young lady is an example of Michigan ladies, I'm ALL in! What a beauty!
A very very pretty girl.
BETTER THEN GHETTO DETROIT 😂
My ancestors lived there .... salute from Quebec, Canada
My family is from Quebec😊
Quebec is even more tundra freezing craziness!!!
I love the island. have always wanted to cross the ice bridge. one of these years
Its not always safe to do so. I never recommend it to tourist. Most locals don't. The only people that advertise it is news channels.
Went there 40 years ago with my little girl, who now she’s 49
I have been there years ago when we were stationed at KI Sawyer AFB outside of Marquette and LOVED the island. That was interesting to see the island in the winter. If I grew up on that island I would have gone insane during the winters there, except I would have loved the snowmobiles. Well, we had snowmobiles and a private ski hill at KI Sawyer and I loved that. So, if I had lived on Mackinac Island at the same age I was at KI Sawyer, then I would be okay, but as a Junior and Senior in high school, I would have gone out of my mind. I thought the rule there was no motor vehicles-- I get the maintenance and emergency vehicles, but snowmobiles don't count? Wouldn't they be allowed to drive a golf cart around the island? I don't remember. There is far less charm to a golf cart than riding in a carriage, but still.
SWSimpson Apparently you never tried driving a golf cart over ice/snow.....
Besides, you can snow ski off a sled-ya know, to go to school etc.
The hotels do use electric carts for bell service from the docks
@@frankdillingsly3580 no they do not lol
@@baileyyjanette6294 Hey Baily...they used electric carts during tourist season when I was there. At least Bell service from Mission Point Resort did. Upon customer request but otherwise you could call a taxi or tote your luggage yourself from the docks
Looks like paradise to me
Hallo very nice 👍👍
I want to go there this weekend
Yoosta be a yooper. The island was always awesome. I was there last in 2019 after the Macinac Bridge walk and was disappointed. Employees on the island were like begging for tips no matter what they did. Didn't used to be that way. Decided then I would not go back.
P.S. a yooper is someone who grew up in the Upper Peninsula.
Once a Yooper, always a Yooper. I was born in Marquette, Michigan. Even though I live in Chicago, I still think of myself a Yooper. I hope that you think of yourself as a Yooper too.
What do you think has changed that the workers all over the island were begging for tips ?
I mean , yes , the economy has been getting bad ... even before covid .
Can you explain a little bit more ... do you mean every counter you were at , had the tip jar ? ... and that it didn't always used to be like that ?
Oh. 4 years ago
We haven't had a "mild winter " since then.
Only VP Pence was allowed motorized SUVs
Cool, love the school.
What a great life
Enjoyed biking around it a few times last year when we took our UP trip.
We found the construction dock and lots of tire tracks from there into the back roads, so we figured they allowed construction vehicles on some roads.
Rubber tired wagons’ tracks?
why is youtube suddenly recommending this to someone like me from the Caribbean lol. Seems like a cool place though :)
Wow, haven’t been there in the winter since the 1980 or so. Seems like things have changed a bit.
Can you please tell us and what why you think it's changed since the 80s ?
Life forever!!!!
Great video. What a cutey.
Me when I see a motor vehicle on the island: wait-
ThAtS iLlEgAl!
Road plow for Mackinac Island sounds like a DREAM gig
Why? A person who likes to use the "toys" of snowplowing vehicles, check out the snowplowing at the National Parks here in the United States. One example is the "Going to the Sun Road" in Glacier National Park, Montana. On the "Big Drift Area" it has been as much as 90 FEET deep of snow and rock debris from avalanches. That's just from one winter season.
@@exmichigansnowskier2150 wow that's crazy ... 90 ft. snowdrifts .
@@exmichigansnowskier2150 you've got some bizarre aggression there.
Clicked because I saw Maniac Island. Still cool
Patrick R “Maniac” island. HAHA, was that an intentional slam??
What happened to business this year due to COVID? Just curious. I used to live in Michigan.
It just this very moment occurred to me that it might sound like I'm saying "Mack-in-aw," but what if it's actually pronounced "Mack-in-Uh."
If you live on the island your family has bucks. Houses are expensive because you're on an island. Kids that go to school there get personal learning with only a small amount of people.
One time stop...Local business ripped off skin for any step. $31 for Ferry, $15.50 for Mackinac Fort , $10 just enter to Grand Hotel.....Cup of tea is $4. Local ristorante charge extra for use a credit card...No more for me.
I haven't seen that since I was a kid
I've been to the island a couple of times. The one thing I always wanted to know is how do the people get their groceries to the island? They don't have a Kroger or a Walmart store to shop 🤔.
Ken Blackburn Family owned market in town and I suspect some have gardens. Everything has to come by plane or ship.
Also people can shop off island and just take the ferry back, and don't forget Amazon! You can get it delivered but it will cost you! But most familys just have a very well stocked pantry that they rely on during the long winter.
Hit the IGA in St Ignace
While visiting some friends in "The Soo", we went there several times. Absolutely loved the place.
I was thinking of driving out that way from Toronto. Through the Soo and down to Macinac Island for a weekend.