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Day 5: Rice Lake to Duluth
Before leaving Owatonna, we made a stop at a place called Cabela's.
I can't even begin to describe this place.
To put it in Silicon Valley Geek terms, this was Fry's Electronics for the Outdoor set.
Just outside the 150,000 square foot store was this deer sculpture, where we took some pictures.
Inside the store, we bought some watersocks and some buffalo jerky.
On the trip from Owatonna to Duluth, Jake & the Grandparents rode in the Southwind,
and Caleb & Glenn in the Voyager.
The trip north through Minnesota on I-35 was lovely and basically uneventful.
We stopped in Saint Paul for lunch,
and in Hinckley for a particularly bad cup of coffee.
We were a bit delayed by road construction.
Just at the south end of Duluth is a rest stop with an incredible view of Duluth MN, Superior WI,
Lake Superior
and the St. Louis river (see the picture at the top of this page).
Caleb & Dad waited here for the grandparents, and got ourselves into a presentable state
before meeting Bruce Anderson & Patti Berg Anderson.
Glenn's Road Trip Tips, Vol. II
Get a book or two to read together on your trip.
Don't let the kids just watch cable TV in the hotel each night;
spend some together time and read.
Look for something
- engaging for each member of the family
- episodic enough that you can read a little each evening
- ideally, tied in some way to the area you are road-tripping through
Our first book for this trip was
Paddle-to-the-Sea
by Holling Clancy Holling.
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Patti Berg Anderson is a distant cousin of ours (I believe that her grandfather was first cousin to Ann's grandmother).
We were introduced via email by even more distant relatives, Stig & Ulla Ottoson, who live in Stockholm.
We haven't actually met Stig & Ulla, but they found the Peterson Central website a while ago, and we've been
trading emails ever since.
You can hardly imagine the wonderful hospitality we found with this family.
Although they had never met us, they brought us in, showed us all around Duluth,
put us up in their beautiful home, took us out to breakfast and walking/rollerblading
along the lakeshore, tooks us shopping at
the Duluth Pack Store
and even did our laundry before sending us on our way with
much wonderful advice about what to do in Northern Minnesota.
Patti's two dogs got along pretty well with Tammy and Daisy while we were there.
