Our last morning in Duluth was spent sleeping in to recover from the last few days and doing some necessary admin work. We didn’t leave the house till mid afternoon when we did some shopping and hit the post office. After our chores we headed to Enger tower, a tower built in 1939 in honor of a Norwegian named Bert Enger who spent much of his life building up the city of Duluth. We knew it offered nice views of…
First stop the next day was Grand Portage state park which was right at the Minnesota/Canada border. There’s a river called Pigeon River that separates the US from Canada and has some waterfalls that are a fairly short walk through the woods along a path. We took in the waterfall, waved to Canada and continued on our drive. Next we stopped for lunch in Grand Marais and also grabbed a few donuts from “The World’s Best Donuts” shop. Not sure…
Not to be deterred by a simple hangover we left the following morning, if 11 or 12 is still considered morning, to drive north along the Lake. The north shore of the Lake goes a couple hundred miles along Minnesota till it hits Thunder Bay, Canada. We decided doing it in one day wasn’t in our best interest so we found a hotel/casino at the end of the drive near the border called Grand Portage and booked a night there….
We left the next morning for a short couple hour drive to Duluth, Mn, on the western tip of Lake Superior’s north shore. Here we had another great find for our campground. It was a campground/marina combination with small sites basically in a parking lot and definitely wouldn’t be for everyone but with our love of the water and boats and the fact it was within walking distance to town it was perfect for us. We set up camp and…
After our travels we returned to Fargo on September 5 only to pack up and leave the following day. We saw all we needed of North Dakota and it was time to head for Minnesota. Minnesota is a pretty big state and we were a little short on time with a bunch of things going on from August through October so we decided to skip alot of the state and hit what we felt were the highlights, which we decided…
The day after arriving in Fargo we drove north about an hour to a small town in Minnesota called Ada where we met up with friends we made that were parked next to us at our campground in Las Vegas. It was a fun day and they were very excited to see us. The next day was a much needed down day doing nothing but some administrative stuff, some laundry, and vegging on the couch in front of the tv….