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 …
Month: November 2009
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 …
Records Were Meant To Be Broken
When we first bought Voyageur in 1993 we had a certified weather station on our property. The previous owner was responsible for recording data on a daily basis. This involved walking out to the station to check the low temperature, the high temperature, …
To Be Recycled
If you’re anything like me then you probably have a corner of your house designated for items that should be recycled but you just haven’t done it yet. My pile contains items I don’t know where to take as …
Hypothermia Kills
It doesn’t have to be winter to die of hypothermia. A person doesn’t have to be submerged in water and the temperature doesn’t even have to be below freezing. It has even been said more people die of hypothermia in the …