The Burt Lake scenic overlook on I-75 northbound, 20 minutes or so south of the Mackinac Bridge.
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Headed northbound, to the right.
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The trusty Tech Tour Mobile, a 2012 Ford Focus SEL.
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A few shots of a bridge crossing.
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Hello there Mackinac Island! See you in a few days.
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GLITR's temporary Sault Ste. Marie bureau, the Holiday Inn Express.
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My view of Sault Ste. Marie from the hotel. Obvoiously close to the university.
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Sunset from my hotel room May 10, over the St. Mary's River west of the Soo.
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Matt visits ICI and its general manager Chris Olson in Sault Ste. Marie, where there's a lot of work in advanced composites.
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David Finley, the new dean of Lake Superior State's combined business and engineering college (left) and Eric Becks, manager of the Lake State robot lab.
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A casually beautiful skyline from the Lake Superior State engineering labs.
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The Lake Superior State campus
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The site of a new business incubator in Sault Ste. Marie. 16,000 square feet in size, it will be done later this year.
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Sunset from Brimley in the UP
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Point Iroquois LIghthouse near Brimley
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Another sunset over Whitefish Bay
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Dustin Denkins and his Suburb Solar generator, made in the UP's Manistique, during a visit in St. Ignace, at Java Joe's most excellent coffee house
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Just happened to stop by a cottage my family rented out perhaps a decade ago, Sunset Breeze on Brevort Lake, just across the bridge in the U.P. Highlight of the trip was a really nice display of the northern lights.
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Approaching the bridge on US-2
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An exhibit at the Mackinac Bridge overview park
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A memorial to the men who died building the Mackinac Bridge
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Walter Breidenstein and his Gas Technologies LLC methane-to-methanol portable demonstration unit.
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Just for fun, a house Sue and I used to rent in Traverse City (it used to be a duplex -- we had the two bedroom apartment downstairs)
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The house on Seventh Street Sue lived in when we met. Again, so sue me, I did a little bit of tripping and falling down Memory Lane.
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Yeah, this is the view from the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce...
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... the TC Chamber is in this building along West Grand Traverse Bay.
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Fred Kopplow of Pioneer Computer with the huge stack of used hardware in Traverse City
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A quick peek at the Manistee River on my way from Traverse City to Midland.
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Mid-Michigan Innovation Center director Chris Moultorup and public relations representative Barbara Muessig at the new home of the Mid-Michigan Innovation Center
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Barbara Meussig and your humble narrator in a high-speed golf cart at Advanced Battery Concepts in Clare
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Grand Rapids' 'Medical Mile,' which includes the new Michigan State University College of Human Medicine complex. Matt Roush photo
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Hokey smoke, what a view.
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Sunrise over Grand Rapids May 16
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Kristine White, president of Spectrum Health Innovations, in the health care group’s brainstorming center just north of downtown Grand Rapids.
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Part of the laboratory crew at Forensic Fluids in Kalamazoo
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Matt gets ready to take a drug test at Forensic Fluids in Kalamazoo. What was that Lloyd Bridges quote from "Airplane"?
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Greg Cavey, manger of the Michigan Core LIfe Sciences Laboratory in Kalamazoo, checks out the equipment
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Robert DeWit and Greg Cavey in the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center, a life sciences incubator in Kalamazoo
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A technician is hard at work on sophisticated electronic equipment at Niowave Inc. in Lansing.
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The 16,000 square foot addition to Niowave Inc. in Lansing, which will house the company's new atom smasher test station.
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Jerry Hollister, COO of Niowave, with new cryogenic equipment for superconductors.
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A series of photos of the dash of the 2012 Ford Focus SEL Tech Tour Mobile.