It’s been a year today that I sold all of my belongings and set out on an open-ended trip around the world. As expected, a couple of things…
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Day 346 – Driving Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the fall
One of my main goals driving cross country is to visit my daughter and see her new apartment in Jersey City. And after an unexpected month in Wisconsin,…
We hadn’t planned to stay long in Madison, just a stop to mount the new tires and we’d be off to Chicago. I’d seen it pop up in…
We’ve been trapped in Wisconsin for nearly a month now. About an hour after we left Minneapolis after picking the Rialta up from an oil change, we stopped…
George Floyd was the same age as I am, 46. He worked as a bouncer in a bar while he worked on his music, though had been recently…
We weren’t planning on stopping in Minneapolis but after 5000+ miles of driving it was time to get our oil changed. It’s difficult to find someone who will…
There’s a strange cosmic connection between Seattle, WA and Duluth, MN or at least Minnesota generally. A large contingent of Duluthians have moved to Seattle including the core…
Where I grew up, SPAM was considered a ghetto food. I mean I grew up poor on bologna sandwiches but my mom wouldn’t buy SPAM. I probably started…
The Grotto of Redemption Believed to be the largest grotto in the world, Father Paul Dobberstein, a German immigrant, began building the shrine in 1912 after promising the…
Porter Sculpture Park About 30 miles west of Sioux Falls in the middle of corn fields near Montrose, South Dakota, you pass the silhouette of a 60 foot,…