Canoeing Minnesota’s Rum River

Over the long Memorial Day weekend of 2016, (taking Friday off from work) my husband, Erik, and I paddled the 154 mile Rum River. Erik’s parents, Barb and Steve, helped us with a shuttle. The Rum has a special meaning to me because when I was a kid, we had a cabin on the riverContinue reading “Canoeing Minnesota’s Rum River”

Canoeing the Minnesota-Ontario Border

In 2014, Erik decided this should be the trip. I wasn’t super stoked because (1) there aren’t any mountains on the route and (2) it would involve lots of camping, and at the time I felt quite adverse to spending several nights in a row in a tent. In the end, Erik didn’t have toContinue reading “Canoeing the Minnesota-Ontario Border”