Heading Out For Good 
Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 02:10 PM - Friends/Family
We are actually leaving for our trip! We plan to head up to International Falls and cross the border into Canada, then take the TransContinental Highway through Canada to Kalispell, MT. It's doubtfall we'll get internet often during our trip so the diary will not get updated everyday, but we'll update whenever we can. :)

-Miranda

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Up in Tower,MN 
Saturday, August 5, 2006, 09:02 PM - Friends/Family
Visiting my family, waiting for Sara to have her child yet...

Today we swam at lake ore-be-gone and did the fitness trail at Laurentian.. (ouch)
-Joe


Miranda on the raft at Joe's mom's house with Odie with Laura jet skiing for the first time in the background.

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Packed up and heading out... 
Thursday, August 3, 2006, 12:30 PM - Friends/Family
I have completely finished work, and we finished packing up the RV and house, now it's time to Go!!! We're going to waste a few days bumming around the Iron Range while we wait for Miranda's sister Sara to have her new child. (By Aug 8th) Then We'll head out and not look back :)

Thursday night we stayed near whiteface down a hidden old road. nice little spot.
-Joe


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Home! 
Friday, July 28, 2006, 08:45 PM - Friends/Family
We decided to head home. We discovered most of what gear we were missing,
and how everything works. Now we'll take a few days back at home to finish getting setup for our big trip. On the way home in Bessemer we climbed the City Bluff in Bluff View Park. Nice view, but we ascended on a hairy side.. should have almost had equipment!! All-in-all it was a good trip. Turned out we got about 8mpg (mostly because I drove an average of 40mph and used neutral for all the big downhills :) (NOTE TO SELF: DO NOT SHUTOFF AN RV THINKING YOU'LL SAVE EVEN MORE GAS, The Power Brakes and steering is awefully important when it's that big...)
-Joe
P.S. We added the pictures back to the previous days. We never had enough internet time to get them up earlier.


A chipmunk we saw on the way up the bluff.

A view of our RV from the top.

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On Our Way Home 
Thursday, July 27, 2006, 08:28 PM - Driving
I noticed interesting terrain on Google Earth so we drove over to it. Found out it was a huge burn-down over a strange sandy-bog..
We stopped for a swim at a public park on Lake Superior past Ontonagon. It looked just like Park Point. Afterwards we stopped right next to the Big Iron River and watched the begining of the sunset before heading back south away from The Lake.
For the night we stayed back at the same sandpit we had stayed at on our second night.
-Joe


The burned sandy-bog.

A large, old, burned-out building we stopped by.

Sunset by Big Iron River.

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