Northern Beauty: Canoeing the Boundary Waters

In our final post about our Minnesota adventures, we look back at one of the best experiences we had in the state: canoeing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Boundary Waters is a large stretch of land stretching across much of northern Minnesota and it is a complete wilderness. It is over a million …

Exploring St. Croix: Canoeing the Namekagon River

The canoe glided forward, closer to the deer standing in the river. The deer continued chewing as it looked at the approaching canoe. Then, determining the canoe posed no risk, the deer plunged its head back under the surface of the water. It rummaged around at the bottom of the river for a good part …

Three for One: Exploring the Chain of Lakes

This weekend the world has opened up enough where we live for us to go paddling for the first time this calendar year. As we prepare for this, my mind wanders back to last summer and our first times paddling the waters of Minnesota. Our very first trip was with Katie’s parents (see this post), …

1 Down, 9,999 To Go: Paddling Rice Lake

We will be taking turns sharing the stories on the blog. First up – Katie writing about Rice Lake! While my (Katie) parents visited us to help us move in, we knew that we wanted to take advantage of their presence and Hobbes’s presence and go out canoeing! Minnesota is known as the “Land of …

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