More from the North Woods
There’s a beautiful full moon tonight and it’s creating a silvery reflection across the lake that looks like you could walk across to the other side. I froze my butt off trying to get some photos at the right time and exposure. They don’t quite do it justice but I will post them here anyway. I watched for the bear but guess he’s as much afraid of me as I am of him.
Today we took a drive up the Arrowhead Trail to see what was reported as "a lot of development" but only saw one house from the time we left the Hovland Post Office until we got close to Grand Marais. Apparently we were in the wrong area, but we did see some wildlife: a red fox, four deer (including a really young one) and a black bear just ambling across the road. Lunch at Chez Jude, one of the new restaurants in Grand Marais, was a real treat. It was too cool to dine on the porch but the dining room was quite charming with some very nice local art and white linen tablecloths and napkins. Quite a step up for this area. After lunch, we visited some of the many art galleries and book stores in the downtown area.
Since we’re leaving tomorrow, we decided to also have dinner out and drove up to Grand Portage Casino and Restaurant. The ribs were excellent and the meal, since it’s at a casino and on an Indian Reservation, was quite reasonable. It happened to be 50s and 60s weekend and they had a huge tent set up down by the beach with two rock and roll groups from Thunder Bay, Ontario ( just ten miles north of Grand Portage). The music was good and we shared a table with two ladies from Thunder Bay and enjoyed an hour of dancing to the music I remembered from my teens and twenties. Lots of fun.
Next week we’ll be in France - from the 2nd till the 13th of July - then we’ll spend a week in Minneapolis before returning to the North Shore.
There’s a beautiful full moon tonight and it’s creating a silvery reflection across the lake that looks like you could walk across to the other side. I froze my butt off trying to get some photos at the right time and exposure. They don’t quite do it justice but I will post them here anyway. I watched for the bear but guess he’s as much afraid of me as I am of him.
Today we took a drive up the Arrowhead Trail to see what was reported as "a lot of development" but only saw one house from the time we left the Hovland Post Office until we got close to Grand Marais. Apparently we were in the wrong area, but we did see some wildlife: a red fox, four deer (including a really young one) and a black bear just ambling across the road. Lunch at Chez Jude, one of the new restaurants in Grand Marais, was a real treat. It was too cool to dine on the porch but the dining room was quite charming with some very nice local art and white linen tablecloths and napkins. Quite a step up for this area. After lunch, we visited some of the many art galleries and book stores in the downtown area.
Since we’re leaving tomorrow, we decided to also have dinner out and drove up to Grand Portage Casino and Restaurant. The ribs were excellent and the meal, since it’s at a casino and on an Indian Reservation, was quite reasonable. It happened to be 50s and 60s weekend and they had a huge tent set up down by the beach with two rock and roll groups from Thunder Bay, Ontario ( just ten miles north of Grand Portage). The music was good and we shared a table with two ladies from Thunder Bay and enjoyed an hour of dancing to the music I remembered from my teens and twenties. Lots of fun.
Next week we’ll be in France - from the 2nd till the 13th of July - then we’ll spend a week in Minneapolis before returning to the North Shore.
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The Wahlstens salute you from New England. Your odyssey is much broader than ours this year, but we're enjoying the road, too.
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