Most Recent Travels…are at the Top! The rest is history.
In just 21/2 days Camping northwest of Minneapolis (in Maple Grove), we spent a most of our 9 days (before and after our Whirlwind Trip to the Northeast) “just” getting organized, packing, unpacking & recouping from the trip! NOT to mention, a better part of a day getting new brakes Read more…
Leaving Lizzy and The Beast in Minneapolis We just spent 13 days (~1,500 miles in a rental car) in 4 states … Scranton included a Brief Re-Visit to 1 National Park Site: Steamtown National Historic Site (#14-Revisit), where we had an hour to look around again. Could have been 3 Read more…
Voyageurs, Northern Lights & the Ice Box of the US! We camped on Kabetogama Lake, on a cliff overlooking the lake, <1 mile from the Kabetogama Lake Visitor Center for Voyageurs NP, which put us between Ash River Visitor Center to the south and Rainy River Visitor Center to the Read more…
From Duluth, Minnesota to the Canadian border! We camped in Grand Marais, about 75% of the way up the ~150 miles of the Minnesota North Shore of Lake Superior…Lizzy’s 1st time camping in Minnesota (State #41). We visited a couple of unexpected places on the North Shore: Visited 1 new Read more…
And making stops on the Fruit Loop Trail! We camped in the Bayfield, Wisconsin, on the shores of Lake Superior, for a few days. It’s Lizzy’s 1st time camping in Wisconsin (State #40). Bayfield is known as the “Berry Capitol of Wisconsin” because of its unique microclimate and many berry farms Read more…
For now, anyway We’ve loved our 5+ week visit to Michigan…from Detroit, between Lakes Huron & Erie; west to Muskegon, on Lake Michigan; to the Straits of Mackinac, between Lakes Michigan and Huron; to the Upper Peninsula and the shores of Lake Superior; culminating with a week on Isle Royale, Read more…
And the Vagaries of Lake Superior Weather When the gales of November came early! Really! Many visitors over the weekend did not arrive or leave per their original plans! We did, but barely. We departed Copper Harbor, Keweenaw Peninsula on the Isle Royale Queen IV last Tuesday, 8:00 am, for Read more…
On the Keweenaw Peninsula… …which was a center of copper mining for well over 100 years. The Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company began mining near Copper Harbor in 1844. From 1850 to 1881, Michigan produced more than three-quarters of the country’s copper, and in 1869, the state produced over 95%. Calumet Read more…
On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee According to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, at least 200 shipwrecks lie along Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast, a treacherous 80-Mile stretch of shoreline with no safe harbor, between Munising (where we camped) and Whitefish Point (where we visited the Shipwreck Museum). It is known as Read more…
Separating Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsulas And connecting Lake Michigan to the west with Lake Huron to the east. We camped in Mackinaw City for 5 nights, just south of the Mackinac Bridge. We visited a lot in 4 days of touring and learned a lot about the history of Read more…