This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 After our short stint in Wisconsin, it was time to head to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, locally known as the UP. In fact, people up here call themselves “Yoopers,” (think UPers). I get that kind of thing; after all the University of Washington…
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This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 After spending a very enjoyable time in Minnesota, it was time to head east to explore the southern side of Lake Superior. This brought us to Bayfield, WI, the gateway to the Apostle Islands National Seashore. Bayfield is actually Wisconsin’s smallest city, with a…
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This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 As I mentioned in an earlier post, this was one of the stops we were looking forward to. Isle Royale is the least-visited park in the Lower 48 states. It is also the site of the predator-prey, wolf-moose study that now has been going…
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This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 We visited the north shore of MN, from Duluth to the Canadian border twice during our stay — before and after our trip to Isle Royale. The route for this trip was along the scenic highway 61 — essentially a road that was more…
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This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 Hi Duluth, we’re back! Since the wait and COVID requirements convinced us that going to our planned stop in Thunder Bay, Ontario after Voyageurs National Park was not a good idea, we decided to come back and spend a few more days exploring Duluth. …
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It’s about the water; it’s always been about the water.” That quote from one of the park rangers at Voyageurs National Park stuck with me because it was the simple truth — the waterways between Northern Minnesota and Canada has been the lifeline since prehistoric times. It was the primary means for hunting and fishing…
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This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 We are off on our next adventure — visiting the only three states in the “Lower 48” that I have never been too (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan). I’ve wanted to go there for a number of years, but it always seemed just out of…
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This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 Well, all good things must come to an end and ours ended a bit prematurely with an unscheduled need to get home. We had hoped to take the Pacific Coast route going back, but with the flare-up of the Glass and Zogg fires,…
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This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 From Lake Powell, we made the quick trip into Utah to begin a 10-day visit to five of the state’s national parks and monuments. We had been to some of these before, but this time we were going with friends and we had…
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This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 When I was in school, we learned about the Anasazi and Mesa Verde. It was cast as this big “woo woo” mystery, as if an entire population simply disappeared. After traveling around the Southwest US and Mexico for many years, it has become…
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