From June 2016

Neebing Roadhouse

After our visit to Fort William on Saturday we were starving, despite the food samples at Fort William.  We saw all we wanted to see – or all our starving bodies could stand – and headed to a nearby restaurant named Neebing Roadhouse. The decor inside and outside was unremarkable, except for some gorgeous irises, …

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Second Week of Training

The second week of training is over!  Tom and I are pretty excited about it because it means we can finally start working and acting like we know something.  Two weeks of training makes your brain and behind tired but also makes sure that we are trained the Grand Portage Way.  We still have a …

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The Gunflint Trail

On our adventure day last week, Tom and I took off with two other volunteers, Val and Johnny, and drove up the Gunflint Trail.  The Gunflint Trail is one of several scenic drives in the area.  It follows MN 12 from Grand Marais to the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area, 55 miles each direction. Saturday was …

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Canoeing on Lake Superior

The most fun thing we did on training last week was canoeing on Lake Superior.  But we didn’t canoe in plain, old, aluminum canoes.  No – we had 16 people in a reproduction Montreal Canoe! Montreal Canoes were the semi-trucks of the fur trade.  They could carry up to 16 voyageurs and passengers and four …

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First Week of Training Finished

Grand Portage is the first place where Tom and I have had formal training.  It is also the only place where we have not been the only volunteers, so it makes sense that they have formal training here.  Last week we were in training from 8 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon.  So …

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Grand Portage National Monument

Tom and I will be working at Grand Portage National Monument for the summer.  You have probably never heard of Grand Portage National Monument, so this post is an introduction to the monument and its purpose. Grand Portage is the place where east met west in North America.  It was the place where fur merchants …

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