It had been 7 years since I had been to the north woods of Minnesota with my old fishing buddies. [View Full Entry]

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As usual, most days are either morning or afternoon shift we work first; the morning shift feeds bears and makes food, then the afternoon shift will finish the food or do outdoor work like clean sites or make bear beds. Then we hang around doing some work and feed bears as they come in . At 3:30 we eat dinner then prepare for the visitors to come in from 5pm-8 or 9pm. I prefer working admissions as i just sell a few tickets and then read my book. We have a few new volunteers: 2 girls from CA i don't have [View Full Entry]

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So being at the bears for some time, i am ready for a change to get to Central America. Just the change of even lugging my belongings from crowded bus to crowded bus seems like the bit of new scenery i need. Some illness has been spread around through the volunteers and unfortunately i had also gotten ill... had to sleep an entire day to recover, which meant i got to avoid visitors for a day, hooray! There are some great bits about the sanctuary though- i do enjoy the rustic-camping wilderness of it all. Although we now have the ‘pleasures’ [View Full Entry]

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So at the bear sanctuary in Minnesota now for two weeks and it’s been pretty slow for the most part; we’ve gotten some bears in, mostly a few moms with yearlings, a few have spring cubs that are very small and adorable. There have been a few big males coming in checking out the females, trying to get some chances to mate before the larger more dominant males come in. Alfie, the little bear from last year has yet to show up. He was a handful and they said last year toward the end of the summer they were using a [View Full Entry]

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Hey All- So I made it back the the good ole US of A on April 22nd and man is it good to be back!!! ... even if I still have been bouncing around the states a bit. My first reaquaintance with American soil was Hawaii for a family vacation with 13 fellow Corrows. Lots of swiming, surfing, diving, drinking, and the usual Corrow shenanigans. I have to say it was quite the shock going from the land of discomfort and disease to Maui... the epitomy of extravegance. And it was a tough transition from solo travel to a joining a [View Full Entry]

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Friday, July 06, 2007 We enjoyed the cool morning and didn’t get on our way until 11:00. It was a short drive to route 28 and then we headed east toward Ishpeming and Marquette. There were few places to eat along the way and those I spotted were many miles behind by the time they registered in my mind. I guess I wasn’t hungry. Nan Lou said she wasn’t hungry, and we motored on. After many miles we neared the outskirts of Ishpeming and Nan Lou admitted to being a little puckish, (Ham meant to say puckish----or perhaps not) maybe even [View Full Entry]

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Monday, July 02, 2007 We got up. We went to Sam’s. We went to a coffee place. I went to a museum. We left Minnesota. We found a National Forest Campground. We ate. Nan Lou beat me by one point. (This was Ham’s entry for today. He is very tired. I will now write the true log entry to the best of my ability.) We had to be up, dressed, and on our way before nine A.M. This is always a chore for us. Perhaps we can sleep in tomorrow. The thing is Ham noticed low tires last night. He dug [View Full Entry]

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Thursday, June 28, 2007 Last night was a red bag night; and, it felt good. The morning was cloudy but eventually the sun came out with those nice white clouds again. There were little bugs flying all around the LER. They looked like small mosquitoes, which they probably were. There was one bothering us last night as we were reading and we could never kill it, catch it, or put a jinx on it. They never seemed to bite me, and I don’t think any bit Nan Lou either. It was also warmer than yesterday; starting out in the high sixties [View Full Entry]

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Sunday, June 24, 2007 The night was uneventful, temperature right, neighbors quiet, not much campfire smoke, and we slept until about nine or ten. Then the sun warmed the LER as usual and we had to get up and on with our journey. Back on Wisconsin 35 we headed northwest along the river to the small town of Alma. Eagle Eye Louie spotted a little café advertising its coffee and ice cream. Since that sounded like a good healthy breakfast we stopped and walked a little ways back. It was very small, but we did see that they served a quiche [View Full Entry]

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Well, here I go again. After several attempts at this travel blogging I will try a new way. The trip is over, but I will post several days at a time and see how it goes. I might stick in a photo now and then. Past attempts have been thwarted by not easily finding wifi hot spots. I do not want to do my traveling according to the location of such places. By the way, this is from our personal log and might contain weird things, but if we weren't weird people, we wouldn't be doing this. If anything is too [View Full Entry]

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