Blogs from The North Woods, Minnesota, United States, North America

It had been 7 years since I had been to the north woods of Minnesota with my old fishing buddies.... read more

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’ of having a trailer with electricity and wireless internet, a lot of us try not to use it too often. We’ve had a wolf spider in our cabin who frequents us with visits. Once the ... read more

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 downright starving, sometimes it is hard to tell. I had seen several Mickey signs and mentioned them only to receive an icy reply. After yesterday’s pasty, which tasted good but had less than desirous aftereffects, ... read more

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 and getting up to the mid seventies as the day progressed. We drove the ten miles into Ely and were very surprised to see it wasn’t one bit like we remembered it from fifteen years ... read more

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 inflammatory, it is George's fault. Here goes!!!!! It is June 17, 2007 and we haven’t left yet. Maybe we will get away tomorrow. It is hot in the Midwest, like 90 to 95, and will ... read more