Minnesota

When the opportunity to visit Grand Marais, Minnesota, one last time before our move presented itself, we didn’t hesitate. Pete spotted a Facebook post from our favorite Gunflint Trail stop, the Trail Center Lodge, about the new Gichigami Express Dogsled Race. A first time dogsled event, the Gichigami Express was organized as a non-profit with …

I spent the weekend with friends near Kensington, Minnesota, about 2-1/2 hours northwest of the Twin Cities.  In 1897, a great slab of stone with carved inscriptions, the Kensington Runestone, was discovered entwined within a tree’s root structure by a farmer clearing his field down the road from where we visited. Runes are letters in …