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The Weekly Photo Challenge: Friendship
For this week’s Photo Challenge the subject is Friendship. There are so many friendships we experience in our lives. First and foremost with our family, next with our friends and if you are lucky, the...
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Destination North Shore: Our first stop along the way of Lake Superior
The state of Minnesota may have some severely cold winters, yet one thing that makes up for it is the fact that we do have lakes. Lots of them. Recent estimates have put Minnesota’s lakes in the...
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A Night on the North Shore
We arrived on the North Shore of Lake Superior mid-afternoon on a Thursday. The weather was perfect and amazingly cool compared to Minneapolis, just a few hours south. We made a few stops along the way...
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A touch of nature along Lake Superior’s North Shore
Our first morning along Lake Superior’s North Shore wasn’t looking too promising. Dark clouds had rolled in over the lake and we could hear the low rumble of distant thunder all the way across to...
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Second attempt at Carlton Peak
Author’s note: This is the second post on our hike up Carlton Peak in Northeastern Minnesota. In case you haven’t heard, the most devasting, damaging floods in history have recently struck this part...
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Hiking around Cascade River Falls
Author’s note: I’m back to my series on our long weekend at the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. To read recent posts in this series, click here. One of the most popular State Parks along...
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Leave no trace behind except your footprints and your memories
Jacksprinter’s Sunday post is valuable. Something we find and hold near and dear to our hearts. It could be money. It could be land. It could be freedom. Or it could be memories. For me, there is...
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Reflections on the meaning of Memorial Day
For me, the long weekend for Memorial Day will always symbolize the onset of summer. It is a time when everyone packs up their cars and heads to the cabin “up north” or visits one of Minnesota’s...
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A Weekend Off the Grid
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit”. – Edward Abbey We left Thursday afternoon heading north for a weekend off the grid along the gorgeous, rugged north shore of Lake...
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Nature’s mirrors of reflection
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another” – Mahatma Gandi This past June, we took a family trip up north to Ely,...
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