Mommy Baggage and the boys have been across the state sampling pastries at donut shops, ordering up flavorful scoops at ice cream parlors and dining on delicious burgers and fries at various drive-ins around Minnesota. This year we decided to chow down on the best slices of pizza our home state has to offer. Here’s…
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Minnesota Donut Tour
All sorts of sprinkles, gooey glaze and sugary goodness are common themes as we set off this summer to sample some of the state’s best donuts. Our Minnesota Donut Tour features a few of the finest and most well-known confectionaries in the state. It also includes a couple of lesser-known but equally as good bakeries….
Sam’s Christmas Village and Light Tour
Christmas lights. The sparkle and glow of Christmas lights are one of my favorite parts of the entire holiday season. Every year our family visits one (sometimes several) Christmas light displays. This year we chose Sam’s Christmas Village and Light Tour in Somerset, Wisconsin. Sam’s is just two years old, it first opened in 2019,…
Pizza Farm
Along with apple orchards and pumpkin patches, I think a trip to the pizza farm needs to be added to everyone’s fall bucket list. We recently spent an enjoyable Sunday on the lawn of Pleasant Grove Pizza Farm in south-central Minnesota enjoying the tasty farm to table pizza and a crisp autumn afternoon. Preparing for…
Superior Hiking Trail
In the last few waning weeks of summer, we decided to stuff our packs one more time and tackle a couple of sections of the Superior Hiking Trail from Silver Bay to Lake County Road 6. This would be our first backcountry hiking experience of more than a few miles with our boys; ages seven…
Jeffers Petroglyphs
A sacred prayer place for Native Americans, the Jeffers Petroglyphs houses thousands of petroglyphs dating back centuries. Some of these ancient markings of animals, tools and shapes are more than 7,000 years old. Our trip to see this piece of local history taught us about the lives of the first peoples to call the prairies…
Drive-In Movie Theater
Sitting out under the stars watching a favorite film at a drive-in movie theater is a great way to send off summer. There are fewer than a dozen drive-in movie theaters left in Minnesota, so we decided to check one out to experience movie-going from decades gone by. We chose the Long Drive-In near Long…
Say Hello to Paul Bunyan Land
It’s one of my most vivid memories, walking up to the 26-foot statue of Paul Bunyan. The animated lumberjack blinks, looks down at my 4-year-old brother and I and says “Hello, Rochelle come sit on my boot and take a picture.” I was floored. How on earth did he know my name? In shock, I…
Wonderful Wabasha Street Caves
Since the 1840s the Wabasha Street Caves have played various roles in the history of St. Paul. The caves have been used to mine silica, grow mushrooms and served as a getaway for gangsters and ghosts. To explore the wonderful Wabasha Street Caves history and all their many uses, we took a Saturday morning historic…
Minnesota Drive-In Tour
Juicy cheeseburgers and thick milkshakes are the common themes at these five outstanding Minnesota Drive-In restaurants. Our family decided to experience the nostalgia and deliciousness of each of these locations on a Minnesota Drive-In Tour. We put on a few miles and chowed down many more calories as we took a step back in time…