Big Rangenet Final Move 
Saturday, July 15, 2006, 11:46 AM - Friends/Family
Long Day. Woke up at 5:45am, was on the road by 6am. Drove 60 miles to Virginia,MN. Shutdown and loaded up 4 servers destined for the cities and took off South. Tried to help Matt setup temporary servers while driving down to cities. Arrived at Onvoy at 10:30am Got mailserver up by 11am, Rangenet website by 11:30 and then customer websites by about 1. Went to matt's apartment to finish cleaning things up. at 8pm brought matt out to dinner, and then headed back home. arrived after midnight. about 19 hours and more than 500 miles! Miranda was a huge help by driving down there.
-Joe


Our Old Server Room in Virginia,MN -------> Our New Server Setup in Minneapolis! (small)


Here is the new Server room, much more professional...

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Surfing in Lake Superior on Park Point 
Tuesday, July 11, 2006, 05:53 PM - Surfing
Laura, Miranda and I had the rare treat of 2ft waves in the middle of July on Lake Superior.. normally it has to be early spring or late fall for the waves to be surfable. Although they were small, the girls were stoked and had a good time!! Here is a video of Miranda and Laura showing their stuff: SURF VIDEO!(9mb)
-Joe

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Ore-Be-Gone Scuba Diving Encore 
Monday, July 10, 2006, 02:53 PM - Scuba Diving/Snorkeling
Joe needed to go up north for work and Matt was in town, so the three of us went scuba diving at Ore-Be-Gone. There's a lot of neat stuff down there to look at, plus we saw fish all over.
-Miranda

Miranda got frightened by a railway cart underwater!! Giant man-eating-pit-sharks dont bug her, but an old rusty immobile cart does?! gofigure.
-Joe


We don't look very enthused...

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Pattison State Park 
Saturday, July 8, 2006, 10:20 AM - Hiking/Camping
My Mum, Miranda, Odie and I found 3 GeoCaches south of Superior, and then visited Pattison State Park quick. Nice looking area, but swimming lake was hugely busy.
-Joe


The path we took at the State Park ended in this small river.

Nice head shot of Odie while he was in the river.

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Moose Hunting 
Thursday, July 6, 2006, 09:43 PM - Hiking/Camping
After our drive on Hwy 1 a few days ago, we've been excited to try again. I bought a 12v Spotlight that lights up better than headlights! Miranda and I left Duluth at 7pm to go Moose Hunting! We drove 60 miles to the start of Hwy 1 up the North Shore. It wasn't quite dark yet so we hiked the Superior Hiking trail starting @ 47°21'17"N 91°11'44"W West to the Baptism Falls. It was only 1.2 Miles, but huge terrain. It is a well maintained trail though.

After Driving most of the night down Dirt roads shooting the spotlight in every
swamp/lake/field, and after seeing limited wildlife (baby deer, Bats, Fox, Heron), we finally had luck back on Hwy1. Five miles north of Finland, for about 3 miles appears to be Moose Land! We saw 2-3 different males and
a mother and her calf along the way! We couldn't believe it, one after another.
Giant Black Creepy masses slowly hulking along the swampy shoulders. Tried hard to get pictures, but with the slow exposure time at night, we didn't have much luck!
-Joe

Mega-fancy camera, and this is all miranda can get of a moose?!

The Baptism Falls. OOOoooo nice exposure Miranda!

A Hermit Thrush we saw along the way.

Creepy section of Superior Hiking Trail at dusk.

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