After a night of camping and two nights hiding out at a ski resort in Lutsen to wait out some rain, we headed up to Grand Portage. Grand Portage is within spitting distance of the Canadian border, and is part of a tribal reservation. Our choices for accommodation in Grand Read more…
There is a scenic drive on Minnesota’s north shore – which follows Lake Superior (actually its west shoreline) for 150 miles. Within those 150 miles are 7 state parks, and a ferry to a national park. We saw them all! After being in the western US, where you can drive Read more…
Before we left on our trip, we booked a few “big” activities, and this was one of them. We booked a four day, three night family kayaking trip at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, on the northern Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior. This trip was hosted by Wilderness Inquiry, and Read more…
In my 18 years living full-time in Minnesota, and four years living part-time (while in college in Michigan), I never did make it to the one national park located in Minnesota. In fairness, it is about as far from the Twin Cities as possible. The only thing I really remember Read more…
I will make a confession here – I have been excited to see the Mammoth Hot Springs at Yellowstone ever since I saw it depicted while riding on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster at Disney World. The Mammoth Hot Springs (the real things – not the Disney Read more…
I wanted to blow off Yellowstone, claim it was all hype and since we had seen so many amazing places already, this was totally not worth the crowds and fanfare. But…it really is all that. But the crowds do suck. I wrote about the great day we had in the Read more…
This post was written by A, our 8-year old adventurer! Our first five weeks were pretty fast-paced and we saw a lot. A wrote the post below, sharing his highlights of our first five weeks. These are the 15 best highlights from the first five weeks of the trip: Yellowstone Read more…
Yellowstone amazed us with all of its variety, and the variety included the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. In fact, the yellow rock walls of the canyon gave Yellowstone its name! When we got to the parking lot in the morning around 10am, it was a little bit chaotic, but we Read more…
We had planned to camp in Yellowstone, but during this trip we have come to realize that we are camping wimps. We love to camp as long as it isn’t too cold, sunny, buggy or wet! Since it was scheduled to be both cold and wet while in Yellowstone, C Read more…
We don’t have any more things we nearly hit while driving, but we did have a deer cross in front of us at Rocky Mountain National Park: We had a long drive from Colorado to Wyoming and passed the Continental Divide 3 times (somehow) within a few mile span. Read more…