We moved this morning from Grand Casino in Hinkley, traveling 137 miles more north to Prairie Lake Campground in Grand Rapids - the home of Judy Garland. Our timing was good because as we drove through the town a festival was going on - Tall Timber Days - and less than an hour the roads in town would have been closed due to a parade. We traveled through the Fond Du Lacs Indian Nation lands and we know we are in the 'North Country'. Desolate, pines, very raw and wild. We still haven't had the 'wow' factor that the upper peninsula of Michigan gave us. Maybe this week we will see it. Much to see and do here, we will be staying until next Sunday when we move again more north but east - but this time we are going to another Indian Casino - in Ely (where Mukluks were first introduced and are still made there) called Fortune Bay Casino, run by the Chippewa Indians.
We are now camping at the most northern spot in the US since we started this trek. Day time temps are low 70s and nights in the 50s (yeah!!!). We are hoping that we get to see the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) from the recent solar flare up and also start hearing wolves like we did in the UP Michigan last year. We need to stay put for a bit, Chip got pretty sick again and we think he got food poisoned, I didn't clean out his dish the day we went to Duluth it was pretty warm and I think he ate whatever food was left over. He's better, not 100%, but better. And Grace managed to scrape her eye, so she's a one-eye Pete. Our kids!!! wow.
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