Expedition

"We get more done before breakfast than most people get done all day." (US Army ad)

It seemed as though Pere Marquette memorials were all over the place in the UP, though that's probably sampling bias: the crossroads are more interesting places. Reading about all the places he'd been, and missions he'd founded, and records he'd made, I noticed that the marker for his grave said he died at the age of 38. He asked for the assignment when he was 28.

When I was 38 I mumble mumble mumble