Tag: sauna

• The Allure of Minnesota’s Cabin Culture

  What is it about going to “the cabin”?  So many residents of Minnesota already live in rustic, nature-filled settings, yet are eager to pack up the car and head out to “the cabin.”  If it is not their own cabin, or their family’s cabin, then it is their friend’s or neighbor’s cabin.  In Minnesota, it…

  Kat at travelgardeneat

  06/05/2013

  Life, Travel

  cabin, canoe, dogs, fishing, lake, loons, Minnesota, nature, outdoors, relax, sauna, simple pleasures

• A Sauna for All Seasons

  I am a relative newcomer to the Minnesota sauna culture.  [Note before proceeding further:  sauna is pronounced SOW-na, not SAW-na. Use this handy pronunciation guide from PBS if you need further instruction!]  If my husband had his druthers, a sauna would have been the first structure on our little piece of lake property in the northern Minnesota…

  Kat at travelgardeneat

  02/28/2013

  Life, Travel

  barrel, bath, cabin, Finnish, health, lake, Minnesota, sauna, seasons