THE VIRTUAL DRIVER
By Christopher A. Sawyer
(March 24, 2013) BRIMLEY, Mich. — Brimley is a small town about half an hour outside of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan on the upper edge of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Soo, the phonetic spelling of Sault, is home to shipping, fishing, and is a small town with a few tourist trap overtones. Busiest in the spring, summer and fall when the Soo Locks between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes are operating, it’s a cold and desolate place in the dead of winter; the combination of flat land, deep snow and plentiful pine trees making it an interesting cross between Bavaria and… Kansas.