Another weekend, another road trip. This time to the North Shore. We made a pit stop on the way to Duluth at Rush City Bakery.  Grand Marais Best Western this time. Sweet. Blake showing off his garden. When I asked Blake if we could stay at his house on the way to Grand Marais he mentioned there was going to be a poetry reading that night. I thought we wouldn't participate until we found out there would be a dunk tank involved.  It sounded lame. But it was once again a Duluth counterculture classic. Only Meadow was bored. But when is she not these days?

I had a gig up in the Boundary Waters with Voyageur Canoe Outfitters planned six months ago. It was only a couple weeks before that, eight other locations signed onto shoots in Cook County. We started our Gunflint Trail trip in Duluth with dinner at OMC.

Scott had a few jobs in Northern Minnesota to do so he packed them all in to one week to make a trip out of it.  I offer a special rate for my 360 photography to Minnesota tourism businesses through Explore Minnesota.  We would be making stops in and around Grand Rapids, Duluth, Grand Marais and the end of the Gunflint Trail. Of course I have to bring the family along.  If I'm going to have to take off work to stay home with the kids, I might as well come along too.