Showing posts with label road trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label road trips. Show all posts
Monday, October 10, 2016

Targeted exile: It was the best Harvest Homecoming ever, both here and in Wisconsin.

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Last Thursday morning we drove to Madison, Wisconsin, arriving back home earlier this afternoon. This journey comes down to two fundame...
Thursday, August 07, 2014

All the Northern Road Trip posting links collected in one place.

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Because it's easier that way. We left town on Friday, July 25, and returned on August 4. The final tally was just shy of 2,000 miles and...
Monday, August 04, 2014

Northern Road Trip, Day 11: A couple thousand miles later, back where we started.

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Dubuque was in the rear view mirror by 5:45 a.m., followed by several hundred miles of your favorite Great American Midwestern Interstate...
Saturday, August 02, 2014

Northern Road Trip, Day 9: Down to Dubuque for the weekend.

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The Iowa city of Dubuque may strike you as a curious place to choose when it comes to plotting a 54th birthday celebration. It helps to k...
Friday, August 01, 2014

Northern Road Trip, Day 8: A Thirsty Pagan in Superior, Wisconsin.

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Duluth is in Minnesota, and Superior in Wisconsin. The two cities are considered as one in terms of the metropolitan area, and they compr...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Northern Road Trip, Day 6: Introduction to Duluth.

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The first time I can recall seeing a timber wolf, it wasn't Kevin Love cleaning the boards. Rather, it was a real wolf, bounding across ...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Northern Road Trip, Day 4: St. Paul and some really Great Waters.

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The Bobbin House Studio , our airbnb base in Minneapolis, lies astride the Green Line light rail at a point roughly between Minneapolis ...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Northern Road Trip, Day 3: Twin Cities, Twins game, twin transit.

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The last time I witnessed a Minnesota Twins home game, Reggie Jackson was playing for the visiting Baltimore Orioles. For students of ba...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Northern Road Trip, Day 2: Quality time near Madison's two lakes.

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(backdated according to my usual unique custom) I've already taken (yet another) look at the impossibly huge Saturday morning farm...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Northern Road Trip, Day 1: Back to glorious Madison, Wisconsin.

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(backdated, according to my quaint custom) It's all quite simple, really. The missus had an unexpected opportunity to change jobs...