Looking up at the night sky is mesmerizing. I have vivid childhood memories of driving with my grandpa and looking at the stars. He’d try to point out the more popular formations like the big and little dippers and like clouds, I’d make shapes in my imagination of groups of stars. The memory of my…
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…
Date Your Spouse: Drink Dangerously
As a mother of two who works outside the home, I’m constantly being pulled in about eleven different directions. Striving towards career goals, juggling my boys’ school and activities, managing a household, keeping up with laundry and writing a blog post here and there leaves little time for maintaining my relationship with my husband. Despite…
Gorgeous Glacier National Park
In the summer of social distancing, the options for family getaways are few. A visit to a national park is the perfect recipe for fun and safe travel. We pulled out the atlas and mapped out a route to western Montana and the Crown of the Continent, gorgeous Glacier National Park. Glacier National Park from…
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…
Tettegouche State Park
Our family enjoys backcountry camping. No cell service, no electricity, no running water or sewer and no distractions. Tettegouche State Park offered all of those features when we camped at a cart-in campsite with our five-year-old and three-year-old a while back. Located along Minnesota’s scenic North Shore, Tettegouche State Park is one of Minnesota’s largest…
Badlands National Park and Mount Rushmore
Someone once told me that travel with kids wasn’t called a “vacation” it’s called a “trip.” It’s true, traveling with kids takes more planning and certainly more patience. Despite the challenges, we packed our bags for a trip to Badlands National Park and Mount Rushmore with our five and three year old for what proved…