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The road behind, and the road ahead
As I close in on two years since my Lake Superior Circle Tour, I take one more look back at the trip as a whole. In particular, what I would do differently the next time around—and what I would keep the same.
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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: All good things must come to an end
More than a week into my circle tour around Lake Superior, I had experienced so much: a chance encounter with a fox, sunrise over Lake Superior, an ancient arctic canyon. Now, the road was leading back home to Michigan.
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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: Pukaskwa National Park
In the spring of 2022, I ticked an item off my bucket list: taking a circle tour around Lake Superior—the wildest, most remote of the Great Lakes. I started my trip in Houghton, Michigan, and drove westward in a clockwise circle. A little more than halfway through my two-week journey, I left Thunder Bay, and…
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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: There is still immense joy
In the spring of 2022, I ticked an item off my bucket list: taking a circle tour around Lake Superior—the wildest, most remote of the Great Lakes. I started my trip in Houghton, Michigan, and drove westward in a clockwise circle. I know that Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but Minnesotans will have…
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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: An unexpected encounter
I had an unexpected encounter in norther Wisconsin, staying entirely off-grid for the first time.
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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: Houghton and the Porcupine Mountains
When we set aside our daily routines for a few days or a week at a time, when life isn’t prescribed by work or school or social obligations, who are we? I remember when my family took vacations in a quiet nook of the northwestern corner of Michigan’s Mitten. I would find myself wishing for…