A wonderful lakeside stay with our friends. Rides in the pontoon boat and the speedboat, visits across the lake. Baby snapping turtles. A fish fry. Minnesota grits with eggs for breakfast. Stand-up paddle-boarding. Red Wing jigsaw. Games of Sequence. Saw a bald eagle swoop over the lake and sit in the tree near the cabin with a fish. But regrettably, due to covid, no visits to local bars to experience a meat raffle or to gamble with pull tabs.
On Sunday we erected the tent and the annex and they both dried out nicely. On Monday we drove to Federal Dam and Itasca State Park to see the headwaters of the Mississippi. On Tuesday, headed out in two ATVs; one a sit on quad bike the other a side by side Can Am. Tim and Jeri in the Can Am. What a blast! We drove for about two hours, a few miles into the forest along alternately muddy and sandy trails, nothing too difficult but definitely would have been tricky on a mountain bike. Four-wheel drive, noisy, no power steering, automatic, but it slogged through the mud no problem. Came to a clearing near a lake and had a little picnic of chicken sandwiches, red wine, cold sausage and potato chips. My arms hurt by the time we got back.
Youtube video of ATV drive;
We noticed the onset of fall as some of the trees were stating to turn yellow and red. Temperature was in the 50’s, but apparently there are only two seasons in Minnesota – winter and road construction…
