[2010 Alaska]
We made it! We traveled for eight days following the Mississippi River. We started at 117,892 and we hit the headwaters at 119,000. It has been a beautiful (slightly rainy) trip.
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[2010 Alaska]
I have finally figured out Minnesota’s secret to having 10,000 lakes. You guessed it, it never stops raining.
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[2010 Alaska]
Brooke’s first fishing attempt on the spillway below the dam of Lake Winnibigoshish. Try saying that three times fast!
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[2010 Alaska]
Ahhhh……Can you hear me back in Illinois? My shower was that good. I haven’t had a shower since Day 3. Brooke fell asleep on a scenic driving tour of the Mississippi headwaters or Itasca Park. That was at about 5 pm. She slept until 8 pm. I only know this because Scott told me so. I wasn’t there because he said the most beautiful words during dinner, “you can take a shower all by yourself if you want to.”
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[2010 Alaska]
We made it to the Mississippi headwaters (or at least the visitors center).
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[2010 Alaska]
Location:Crow wing state forest, mn
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[2010 Alaska]
We tag teamed again today. Scott stayed with sleeping Cody and I took Brooke on a several hour tour of a Forest History Center in Grand Rapids, MN. Cody was not in same shape I left him when I returned, but we’ll get to that later…
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[2010 Alaska]
Cody slept in until 6:15 and Brooke slept until 8:00. The Cody separation technique is working, at least on the two mornings that Scott stayed with Brooke. I get to potentially sleep in tomorrow. We’ll see what happens… Of course sleep in is a relative term considering our Minnesota rooster greeted us with a hearty Good Morning at 4 am again. We thought someone at the campground on Monday night was playing with a bird call. There was no way such a ridiculous sounding bird really existed. Turns out since there was no one else at our campground last night that such a bird must really exist. He only makes noise at around 10 pm and 4 am. We will try to get a recording of the crazy bird.
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[2010 Alaska]
Location:Prescott, Wi
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[2010 Alaska]
Brooke loves catching and examining the creatures which crawl upon the tent. This morning we found a slug and three caterpillars. Now if we can only convince her to let them go :)
