Comfort Suites Canal Park - Duluth

... growing operation). Currently, the Congdon family descendants use it as a time-share vacation destination.

· Toms Logging Camp – Located near Knife River, this is an authentic duplicate of a typical by-gone era with all the buildings (including a horse barn, blacksmith shop, harness shop, shoe shop, horseshoeing stall, bunkhouses, cook shanty and Finnish style sauna), articles, original tools and equipment ...

... with family and more family who wanted to join the fun. I think there were five cars heading up north for the camping trip. My son was looking forward to fishing, I wasn't sure what my daughter was looking forward to. Except that now she remembers the time as a good time and she would not mind taking another camping trip.

... test flying a P-80. He was only 24 years old.

After spending time at the Museum we headed back across the bridge to Duluth's Canal Park. This park sits along the shores of Lake Superior and contains shops and restaurants. A not to be missed free museum run by the Army Corps of Engineers is located here as well. We spent a very ...

... probably artificially filled with gobs of butter, who knows. They just taste great. The also server frozen custard which is very good as well. We have been joking that since David is still looking for a job we should just open the first Culvers franchise in California and strike it rich.
3) Low point of the day: Construction on the freeway! We now know where all the stimulus money is going. Outside of California it seems every other state has mile upon ...

... is very forgiving. Monday night’s ground beef and rice stuffed cabbage leaves turned out much better than the turkey breast. Baked apples were good, too. Carrots or potatoes left whole never seem to soften so you need to cut them in bit-sized pieces. The hamburger patty turned out really well, though, Brady wouldn’t eat it because it tasted different than a McDonald’s hamburger!

We were ...

... that we were free to enter, reaffirming that the information I gathered prior to leaving was a really good thing to do. I don’t think it helps living in New Zealand, travelling on a Canadian passport and driving a US registered vehicle, it doesn’t fit their normal profile.

We drove to a National park, where we enjoyed learning about the early French voyageurs and the fir trade.  There in little doubt in my mind that the Americans put a lot of effort into their national ...

... much all day. We got through Duluth much better this time.
We both have GPS's so that helped. We have missed seeing all the wild animals along the road. It is nice to see green grass and trees. It looks alot like MI here.
We are staying in a campground in Superior Wisconsin.
More later

... miles before we entered the paper-mill town of Grand Rapids where there was the largest pile of logs I have ever seen - 50 ft high and about quarter of a mile long. The other highlights of today were getting the car washed at the geographical centre of North America, re-crossing the Mississippi, and buying a coffee thermos in the town where Judy Garland was born.  Nuff said!


RnH x

P.S Good luck to Damo in his AC - I'm sure he'll do brilliantly.

... m., and we were on the road by 6:05 a.m. - not bad. We stopped at a roadside park for lunch, and of course Dave and Val are coaxing me to go potty, but I just cannot make myself go while people are looking. Or maybe it's because I get too involved with all the smells of a new place, and just can't focus long enough to do it. So it was a pretty ...

... to the nearest departure boards (there were rows and rows of them, showing all the arrivals and departures) to find the gate of our next flight with the forlorn hope that we might make it. That was not to be, mainly because it had been cancelled! We found the gate for the next available flight and were pleased to learn that we had already been transferred to it. So were found somewhere for lunch, actually ...