My Trip to Northern Minnesota
July 1995

In 1995 I made the trip up to Park Rapids, MN on a solo vacation. I was visiting my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins. It was on this trip that I took my first airplane ride. That story and pictures are here. I also did some exploring, some relaxing, and a little fishing.

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I believe this is one of my cousins.
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A peaceful scene. Unfortunately, a large part of the time the weather was overcast.
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The lake was dead calm.
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Sunset.
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Here I am posing with their dog.
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My Aunt tending her flowers.
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My cousin Mara.
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My Aunt in her kitchen.
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I drove up to Itasca State Park, the see the headwaters of the Mississippi River. I have always been interested in the Mississippi and if I had grown up in a different area I might have been a "river rat".
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"The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota                    
At a place where you can walk across with five steps down..."

That is a lyric from the Indigo Girls song Ghost. I did walk across it, so I can say that I have!
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The area had some bad storms a week prior to my visit. This is tornado damage in Itasca State Park.
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My Uncle fishing.
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My cousin Mara and I went out fishing one night. It was pretty dark, and one of my casts disturbed some resting ducks - scaring the bejeezus out of both of us. Fun times!
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I'm not sure what he was doing, but I'll bet it had something to do with fireworks!

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