This is our final US edition of Notes from the Road. After 10 weeks, 8,000 miles, 14 states, 9 national parks, 12 viewings of Space Jams, approximately 100 hours listening to The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian, 13 hotels, 5 campsites, 6 cabins, 2 houses, 2 off-season ski resorts, a Read more…
We finally reach the end of our week in Lake Superior week. We set up camp for 2 nights at Cascade River State Park. The good news was that we could drive up to our site, which made unloading a bit easier. The bad news was – we could drive Read more…
I am sure everyone is dying to hear more about the miniature moose island I referred to in my last post! Your wait is over! You may have figured it out based on the title of my blog post, but the place that almost had miniature moose is….drumroll, please….. Isle Read more…
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…