Returned to Minneapolis picked up car and drove back to Duluth MN to pick up RV (just had it serviced)... and then drove up to the "North Shore" on MN, which is North of Duluth along the coast of Lake Superior.... to stay 5 days at beautiful Grand Marias Municipal Campground (less then an hour to the Canada Border.) Truly a quaint fishing town....
Did lots of hiking around the area to take in several Falls- Devil's Kettle among the nicest of them.
Took a day trip up to Thunder Bay, Canada...the area was overall..."Ehh..." but we did have a real good Polish dinner there consisting of perogies, sausage and stuffed cabbage... Oh- and YES- there was the amazing Fort William (recreated village of the FUR TRADERS from the past- where this area was the central hub.) Apparently the main hub WAS in the US in Grand Portage, MN- until we screwed it up and the Indians had to move across the border to Canada due to a treaty that the US drew up with Canada...
Moved on to more central MN in Tower at the Hoodoo Point Campground. Here we experienced the true nature of 10,000 lakes that MN is known for! We were right on Lake Vermillion and utilized our blow up boat each day we were there.... caught some perch and smallmouth bass. Close by was the town of ELY where we visited two neat places... First was the International Wolf Organization, where they has impressive displays of wolves in action AND they had 7 resident wolves- two of which were three month old pups (arctic wolves, WHITE)....
Second place was the American Bear Center, again with some great taxidermy specimens and in addition they had some resident BLACK bears as well. Will be heading a bit further north tomorrow 8/17, to the Voyageurs National Park near the Canadian border.
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