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Superior Dreams Blog
Greg and I have been slowly building a blog (which will soon be linked from a new SD website!) for our Superior Dreams trip. I just put a new post up and hopefully they will be coming more regularly now. www.superiordream.blogspot.comExciting things are happening with this project. Check it out!!

Take Me Away
I'm sitting in a recliner starring at a computer screen. Outside the window is a dreary White Bear Lake. But a short time ago I was many miles straight south, bobbing in the warm pacific on a surf board. Oh My! Take me away......to right Here.

It's All Good- A Canoe Country Sojourn
Here's a story I wrote for Northern Wilds this past summer, which I just discovered was online. It was the first portion of a 15 day trip, with just Zeb and Tischer. "As my brother and I lowered my father’s aluminum canoe onto the surface of Sawbill Lake, I felt my heart begin to beat in rhythm with the gentle lapping waves. Standing at the launch on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, our daydreams of the paddle strokes ahead were tempered by the three bulging Duluth packs waiting to fill the canoe.Our hope was for a campsite after a quick portage, but just we crossed over the invisible wilderness line we eyed a rocky point wi

Another Campfire and the Aromas of Home
My October column for The Mountain Times:Tonight I stood around a slow burning fire with my brother and our dad. The backyard in which I grew up in was quiet. Looking up, following the swirling smoke, the sky was aglow from the big city lights to the south. The burning wood scraps offered a subtle heat, the rest of me being warmed by my down vest with one cold hand from holding an iced beverage.I thought back to the fires I would have on decent fall nights outside the cabin in Govy. The freshly split fir from stacked rows in the basement burned quickly on an overturned garbage can lid in the driveway. On those nights, the neighborhood was quiet too but the only br

My last 5 days