What the Heck is a "Pasty"???

We knew the time would come, and we couldn't delay it any longer: it was time to leave Clementz's Northcountry CG and move along to the west.  After a leisurely morning we departed about 11:00 am.  Our destination was only about 70 miles west, just past Munising MI.  We parted company with Wayne and Lynda, well, sorta.  They ended up camping at the Bay Furnace CG in the Hiawatha National Forest, while we parked at the Kewadin Shores Casino.  Actually, the two sites are within walking distance, just across the highway from each other.  We debated staying at Bay Furnace with the Charles', but after carefully weighing all the pros and cons (Casino: free, flush toilets, 50 amp electric vs. Bay Furnace: pit toilets, $16 [actually $8 with Federal geezer pass], mosquitoes) the choice became clear.  We visited with Wayne and Lynda shortly after lunch and again at happy hour.  We will be departing again in the morning, but I think the Charles will stay one more night here, and perhaps paddle the Au Train River tomorrow.  We will meet up with them again on Wednesday in Ely MN.

This is a "Pasty"

There is a local delicacy throughout the UP known as the "Pasty".  You see signs for them at many small bakeries and shops all over, but we have never had one before today.  It was after lunch time when we passed through Munising, and we saw a shop advertising pasties as we drove through, and we were hungry.  After parking at the casino and doubling back to town, we pulled into Muldoon's Pasties and ordered a chicken pasty, a beef pasty and some homemade chocolate raspberry fudge.  We enjoyed our treats at a picnic table outdoors on the Lake Superior shore.  It turns out a pasty is a mixture of a little bit of meat and a whole lot of diced potatoes and some other veggies, baked into a dough bread.  I ate mine with my hands like a sandwich, and it fell apart.  Dorcas was more civilized and used a knife and fork.  It was pretty bland and could have used more meat and some Texas Pete.  The fudge was great!