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This guy is huge! Reputedly the third largest free standing memorial in the country, the Iron Man statue dominates the landscape at a little city park south of Chisholm along US-169. It calls you to spend a moment pondering the role of the individual mine workers in...
Back in 1893 Frank Hibbing found indications of iron deposits here and made plans to mine the iron and to build a town here for the mine workers. The mining operations proved lucrative and Hibbing underwrote much of the state of the art infrastructure and encouraged...
Greyhound Bus Lines can trace it origin back to Hibbing, Minnesota, in 1914 when Carl Wickman began offering rides in a 7 passenger car manufactured by Hupp Motors in Detroit. The Greyhound Bus Museum in Hibbing does a nice job of interpreting the first several...
What a treat! This is another of the incredibly well interpreted living history museums of the Minnesota Historical Society. The visitors center offered some wonderful exhibits on the history and future of forestry as well as a great movie on the last log drive...
Once we decided to make a stop in Grand Rapids, we needed to find a campground. The Allstays app revealed a COE campground nearby and with a couple of phone calls we managed to reserve the last available site for just one night. With a classic car show coming up the...
Monday morning we broke camp at Lindbergh State Park and set the GPS for Hibbing but ended up in the Land of Oz. as we traveled we learned that Grand Rapids is home to the Judy Garland Birthplace Museum. We learned that Baby Gumm came from a theatrical family and...
Minnesota Military Museum on the grounds of Camp Ripley has an amazing collection of militaria from the Civil War to present, reflecting the time frame of Minnesota statehood. It evokes a Smithsonian kind of reaction. "If only we had a week, or a month, or a year,...
It started out as a plan to drive to St Cloud to get the F-150 serviced at the Ford dealership but when Yelp! yielded the information that Bill's Standard Service in downtown Little Falls was an option the plan changed. We dropped the truck off locally then went in...
Yesterday's rain cloud did have a silver lining. We scored a state park campsite with electric. We'd been unsuccessful on Friday, not surprising since weekends in July are high season in northern campgrounds. On Friday we ended up at a KOA near Minneapolis and that...
Video: Charles Lindbergh at Little Falls Yesterday after getting ourselves and our T@B situated, the two of us decided to head off on a bit of a hike despite the mosquitoes. We grabbed the portable Thermacell and headed off to hike on the grounds where a young Charles...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.