Back On Holiday!

Okay, we're back - on holiday. The holiday: Northern Minnesota. Five days.

Laurel has been working - either at the farm or at the Birchwood - just about always. The same goes for me. We've earned this one.

It's going to go like this: Tomorrow we'll load the car. Warm clothes, pillows, two iPods, a few old mix tapes and Ali inside. Two recumbent bikes on top.

We'll drop Ali off at my mom's and make our way to 35W heading North to Duluth. On the way we'll be hitting several thrift stores looking for loot. On our list: an old-school blender, a Casio SK-1 keyboard, a formica table for our kitchen and a bike helmet. Wish us luck.

In Duluth we'll have lunch at Pizza Luce and hit an antique mall across the water in Superior, Wisconsin.

Then it's back on 35 - which turns into Highway 61 - towards Grand Marais. We'll stop along the way at the Coho Cafe (Laurel's favorite) for coffee and pastries.

We're meeting my Dad and Diane a their Devil's Track Lake retirement spot, about 10 minutes from downtown Grand Marais and the shore of Lake Superior. There we will erect the two campers and get ready for camping. There will be a fire.

On Sunday the expedition will splinter. Dad and Diane will stay at Devil's Track and Laurel and I will move over to our $40 lake-view room at the Outpost Motel. On our one-year anniversary we will watch the sun set at the very spot we were engaged. Downright poetic. We will be home in time to celebrate my Mom's 55th birthday Tuesday night.

Trish: the bubble.

I don't know what the Wi-Fi situation is in Grand Marais (it was not so hot in December '03 when we were engaged) but it is our intention to keep you posted via this blog. Whatever the situation, we will keep a log, take pictures and video, and share them all with you some kind of way.

Ali, by the way, is asleep at my feet and dreaming as I write. I can feel her running paws on my foot and now she is dream-barking.

Be well.

Love,

Jeff (Laurel is at the Birchwood)