Comfort Inn West - Duluth

... with electricity, intercom system, burglar alarm, a central vacuum system, hand carved walnut decor and 14 carat gold leaf ceilings. Chester Congdon made his fortune by buying up 2nd grade iron ore properties and waited until the mining companies cleaned out their 1st grade deposits – he then multiplied his investment by 16 times. THEN, he built another house twice this size in Yakima, Washington (close to his ...

What was meant to be a warm camping trip where we could swim and enjoy the sun turned into a cold time, with gale storms to add to the mix. It was still a good time nonetheless.

We went beyond Duluth to a place called Boundary Waters. A place my wife wants her family to see, reminiscing of her summer in Minnesota. We took ...

... in the Pacific Theater, Major Bong became the "Ace of Ace's" shooting down a confirmed 40 enemy aircraft. He was awarded the Medal of Honor and sent back stateside. Upon his return to Wisconsin he married his fiance', helped sell war bonds and was ultimately sent out to California to work as a test pilot. Major Bong was killed in an accident ...

... tell him stories or he often listens to books on tape that Jeriann got him. His recent favorite is "The Box Car Children", though he has renamed it "The Caboose Kids".
2) Culvers: OK this is our new favorite fast food chain. We ate here for the second day in a row. The hamburgers are just amazing. They use fresh Wisconsin beef and for some reason that taste like the best hamburgers you could make from your backyard grill. They are called ButterBurgers. They ...

... can only give general cooking "miles" as opposed to minutes. My engine cooks differently with highway driving than it does around town (and I did all my practice cooking around home). So what I really needed was a 200-mile journey that I drove regularly to experiment with. AND it’s problematic if you sort of squish the food and tear the foil when you close the hood.

So it’s better to cook something ...

We left Thunder Bay, Canada, after spending a great few days, and headed south towards the border. We arrived to an empty border crossing and as we have come to expect were asked to pull over and proceed into the building, I suspect they were bored, which doesn't help. After the usual questions and a few new ones, we were asked if we had any documentation that might show we still lived in New Zealand.

The agent then proceeded to type additional information into our file, and then ...

We have had absolutely beautiful weather, sunny and mid 70's.

Saturday: We stopped by Rugby, ND to a Prairie Village Museum. It was interesting.
Also, a little history, Rugby is the center point of North America. We stayed at Green Acres Campground in Lakota, ND.

Sunday: We drove ...

... 8221;.  I did however, take a photo of dungarees-clad Loren filling up the tank of his antique Ford tractor at the gas station in Polk County, MN. Loren was slightly bemused at my explanation that I was driving across America and getting a photo of someone from each state (not actually true) and was telling the story about the mad englishwoman to the other customers when I left.  Minnesota transitioned from wheat to lakes and logging.  I could smell cut pine ...

... Val are retired the alarm almost never goes off. Not only did it go off, but it was buzzing away in the middle of the night. It was still dark out for heaven's sake. Dave and Val hop out of bed, and hustled around like it was a fire drill or something, and before I knew it we were headed down the road. Val says Dave wanted to leave at 6:00 ...

... to our trip. It was immediately obvious that most the passengers had connecting flights and were not happy. Some of them were very vocal. The plane actually landed in Minneapolis about 12:45, giving us hope that we would make our connection. And we might have been in time if there had been a gate agent to open the gate and let the passengers off. After about 15 minutes we were able to get off the plane and ...