Along the Voyageur Trail

As we continued our trip east through Minnesota the rain kept up with us. The rivers, creeks and ditches were running full tilt, some flooding in the Lake of Woods, Rainy River and Rainy Lake areas. We had a little misadventure while parking at the Little Fork campground, it was a nice grass site (which looked high and dry) and Denis decided to pull through, we didn't make it through. The ground was completely saturated and there we sat spinning until Denis flagged down a good samaritan on a  quad who got a buddy with a pick-up to give us a pull.

We stumbled on a few interesting places: Warroad has an historic window & door plant, Arctic Cat & Polaris ATV's and snow machines are manufactured in small towns in Northern Minnesota. We visited the walleye capital of the world, Baudette.We finally enjoyed a nice sunny day, Friday, while we travelled from International Falls to Split Rock Lighthouse (on the shore of Lake Superior. We had an interesting stop in Ely, many outfitters for canoe trips into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. We had a brisket sandwich, OK but it wasn't up to Denis & Cody's standard. Today, in the rain again, we visited Grand Portage National Monument, interesting and we both had our elementary school history of the fur trade refreshed.

Split Rock Lighthouse

We crossed the border in to Ontario, heading towards Thunder Bay. We took a brief side trip to Kakabeka Falls, very beautiful and also very high water as well.

Kakabeka Falls



Five More Provinces

Denis says if it doesn't warm up and stop raining we might head for Arizona sooner rather than later.