Trick, Treat or Something Else?
Halloween. The holiday that kids love almost as much as Christmas. When I was a kid I loved to go Trick or Treating and would run around the city as fast as I could trying to fill my pillowcase …
How to Have Sex in the Woods
This is the title of a book by Luann Colombo that generated much interest in our store this summer. I never had to guess what people were chuckling about when they were standing in front of the book shelf …
Superior Hiking Trail
Last week was the Minnesota Education Association’s Conference for teachers in Minnesota. What that meant for us parents with kids in school was break time. We took advantage of only a half of a day of school on Wednesday …
They’re Back
Amy Voytilla and Dave Freeman have returned to Grand Marais after their 51 day voyage around Lake Superior for the Wilderness Classroom Project. What an awesome accomplishment to have paddled over 1100 miles on the biggest Great Lake. Lake Superior …
Loyal Readers
A big thank you to all of my loyal blog readers. I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy days to check and read the blog. I really enjoy hearing from you all whether it is a comment …
Global Cooling on the Gunflint Trail
October may have started out unseasonably warm but it is ending unseasonably cold. The average temperature this month so far is 37.70 degrees and in the past 10 years only in 2002 was there a colder average at 32.63 degrees. Ponds, creeks, …
Global Warming on the Gunflint Trail
Talk of global warming has been going on for what seems like forever. You see interviews about it on the news, there are discussions on the radio, campaigns on billboards, and seminars about it everywhere. There are those who …
Boundary Waters Canoe by Wenonah
During the summer we had the opportunity to try out a new canoe by Wenonah. We love Wenonah Canoes and its owner Mike Cichanowski. Mike C. is the Vice-President to Mike P. on the board of the Professional Paddlesport …
Sunrise, Sunset
The nice thing about fall is that you don’t have to get up very early to see the sunrise nor do you have to stay up late to watch the sunset. This last week before Daylight Savings the sun doesn’t rise …
Kayaking Lake Superior
In September I wrote a blog entry about Amy and Dave who were paddling around Lake Superior. They are still on their 1,200 mile journey around the world’s largest freshwater lake and thousands of people are keeping track of them via their …