Don’t Know Much About History
But I am learning something now! Isn’t it strange how we are forced to learn things in school that we have absolutely no interest in at the time? I don’t understand why we need to make some teachers miserable …
Category: News
Of Combines and Cornfields
The first night of camping in our RV was quite uneventful. The hosts were hospitable, the bathrooms were clean and there was no charge for plugging in for electricity. I think Mike was reliving his days as a youth …
Look and See
I dropped the kids off at the bus stop yesterday and went for my run. It was so gorgeous out there, especially for the end of November. Gull Lake was still ice free and calm as could be. The pine …
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Holiday Road. Do you remember that song or the Griswald’s? I do. I think that’s probably one of the funniest movies I have ever seen and it ranks right up there with RV. When I was a kid my family traveled …
Life Away From Voyageur
There does exist other facets of our lives that do not involve Voyageur. Many of these revolve around our busy children who are now 10 and 8. When Mike and I decided to have children we didn’t want them …
What Do You Do All Winter?
This is another one of those questions we seem to get asked frequently. It’s difficult for people to imagine how we can stay busy when we aren’t serving our guests. Somehow we manage to do a good job keeping …
Leonid Meteor Shower
I wish I was waking up in Asia this morning. The Leonid meteor shower peaks this year on Nov. 17th. The shower begins on Tuesday morning around 0900 UT (4 a.m. EST; 1 a.m. PST) with a sprinkling of …
Aye, Aye Captain!
Next summer that is how you may need to address our towboat drivers or should I say towboat Captains? The U.S. Coast Guard met with a group of outfitters on the Gunflint Trail earlier this month …
More Bad News About Lake Superior Kayaker
Autopsy: Missing kayaker committed suicide Investigators found a handgun case in Douglas Winter’s car, along with a box of ammunition with bullets missing. By: Mike Creger, Lake County News Chronicle Douglas Winter, the Lake Superior kayaker whose body was found …
Life Beyond Internet
I chose to live 56 miles from the nearest town in the middle of the wilderness. When I made that decision there was not a Wide World of Web. Our marketing consisted of word of mouth and attending Sport and …