Hello all, Doug and Melanie here. In a previous post, we mentioned we were selling our Airstream and buying an off-road trailer. (As Shelly said, we love getting into wild places to hike and explore and enjoy nature, and an off-road trailer will let us do that more.) Well, the transition is complete: the Airstream is […]
Month: August 2022
A Different “Premium” at Lake Superior
Man, it’s been almost a week since I posted last, which has to be a record for me. Since then, we: stayed overnight in a rest area near the Canadian border, which had its pros (a pond we sat by for happy hour) and cons (trucks moving in and out all night); crossed the border […]
Goodbye Canada, For Now
Tomorrow we leave this campsite in Whiteshell Provincial Park, our final in Canada, and drive all day to a rest stop in Ontario for the night, then all the next day back into the U.S. at Minnesota. I have to admit, it’ll feel good to be ”home”—although we’ve had our home with us the whole […]
Manitou Appe
At our last campsite at Hecla, I met Svea (she’s on the right; Lauren the park interpreter is on the left), who helped lead my guided tour through the woods of Hecla Island. While Lauren told me about the mammals native to Hecla, Svea mentioned a few spiritual beliefs of her indigenous people, the Anishinabe, […]
Black Bear, Black Bear, What Do You See?
I see a lone hiker looking at me. If my headline isn’t familiar to you, you don’t know a kid, I’d bet. People have been reading the picture book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, by Bill Martin Jr. and the famous Eric Carle, since 1967. My mom read it to me; I […]
Flooding on Winnipeg River
I’m lying on the sofa very early in the morning, watching and listening to a thunderstorm; it’s supposed to storm on and off all day long here. Normally I’d enjoy a good storm, but in the Airstream you worry about hail, falling tree limbs, the dog quaking in the corner of the trailer beside Tracy […]
My Brilliant Laundry Solution
I can’t believe we’ve been living on the road this long and I’m just now implementing this idea. I first saw it in action in the Everglades two winters ago, when I talked to a guy in our campground who was swinging an onion bag in wide circles, with water flying out. Spin cycle! He […]
Exploring Hecla Island
It’s been a quiet week here at Lake Wobegone Winnipeg. (I’ve always wanted to start a post like that.) Seriously, this little island is rich in cultural history and has wolves on it, but we’re not finding much we can do because: we’re not golfing, the lake is flooded so no beach, and mosquitoes turn […]
Music Studio Tiny House
I super enjoyed building this kit: it’s the same ratio as my favorite house kits but it’s a music studio, and I built it for my son, Finn. You can see how happy I am with it! Now it just has to not break on the road before I can hand it to him. Singapore […]
Hecla and Gimli on Winnipeg
That’s not an entirely made-up headline. It’s a scramble of where we are—as a cool-sounding phrase that reminds me of the Star Trek episode, ”Darmok and Jalad at Tamagra,” where Picard has to learn an alien’s language—that’s all in metaphor—to survive. It’s one of my favorite episodes. We are indeed on Hecla Island on Lake […]
