Category: Travel
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
Frutta fresca! Can’t believe it has already been two years this week since we were exploring Rome’s historic streets. Ciao! ~ Kat This post was in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge. ”Fresh” was this week’s theme. Everyone is welcome to join in the Challenge; further details on how to participate and links to others’ responses are found here.
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Unplugged and Off-the-Grid ~ Exploring by Canoe (Part 4)
The weather was gray and wet, and often windier than one would like for taking the canoe out for a relaxing exploratory paddle of the surrounding lakes. And there is something to be said for just enjoying the beautiful spot where you’ve set up camp, and kicking back with that good book or fishing rod…
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Unplugged and Off-the-Grid ~ Our Island Home (Part 3)
We finished our seventh portage of the day, and finally found ourselves in Long Island Lake, with the goal of setting up camp on the island closest to the portage. A pair of loons greeted us as we began paddling toward the island. My sons lifted their paddles and just floated along for a short…
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Unplugged and Off-the-Grid: Getting our Paddles Wet (Part 2)
Turning off the cell phone and leaving it behind for four nights is a liberating feeling. Once we were up the Gunflint Trail, cell phone signals were no more. Problem-solving while camping and on the water in the BWCA would be handled through good old-fashioned brain power rather than plugging the query into Google. No…
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Unplugged and Off-the-Grid: Gearing Up (Part 1)
Recently, I introduced you to (or for many of you, reacquainted you with) Minnesota’s cabin culture. In northern Minnesota, I dare say that Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) trips are woven into the region’s culture just as strongly. Amazingly, in over 20 years of living “up north” we had yet to make it into the…
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