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Tag 25 Our last day in Two Harbors and with Janet and Berry. It was really nice with both of them, we talked a lot today. The weather wasn't great, thunderstorms... It's funny...

Day 24 Lake Superior is really cold 🥶... It's the deepest and largest of the 5 lakes here and the second-largest freshwater lake in the world. The water quality is excellent,...

Today, after some shopping, I drove to Two Harbors on Lake Superior. Marten immediately started his search for Agates after Janet, our host, told him that you can certainly find...

For the last few days, we're heading back to Minnesota. We still need to see Lake Superior. Transfer from Newark Airport - with a view of the NYC skyline 👍🏼. The flight was a...

If the food is already so expensive, then at least sightseeing should cost nothing 😆 We start the day after a $60 breakfast at the hotel with Subway line 1 towards Staten...

Day 19 So far the day with the longest 'walk', 12.8km in 3h.🚶‍♀️‍➡️🚶‍➡️ Marten wanted to walk the Central Park lengthwise and back. We went north along the west side and then...

Marten on the Bow Bridge.

In total, the "blue one" accompanied us for 2235 miles. At times I had it at 40 miles per gallon consumption. Whatever that is in liters/100km. I'll have to do the math. 😆...

To get there before the "crowds" we left at around 8am. About 15 minutes to the Rainbow Bridge $5 Maud on the US side, passport control on the Canadian side 😆 also quite...

Day 15 Today we only had about 130 miles to drive. Time for pit stops. We made the first one at Presque Isle State Park again. This time at Beach No. 10. Today it was unguarded,...

For Klinger! We love M*A*S*H🤩

Finally have breakfast with normal dishes and not disposable stuff 👍🏻 For this, the Getaway Hostel gets an extra point! When you drive from there towards Toledo, you drive...

Headed east, first on Interstate 94 and then on 90. About 390 miles. It ended up taking longer because there was a lot of traffic on the way to Chicago. The Chicago Getaway...

Today is Marten’s last day at day camp and mine at 3M. Took a picture of Marten with the two carers from the Bear Bus 👍🏻 After the almost obligatory pizza for Marten, and a...

Marten is really lucky with the weather for his Day Camp. After all, he took 2 pictures today 😚🤣 Plenty of space for many children. When picking up from the bus, you have to...

Back on the bus

Day 2 at Day Camp

The Real Bus!

Day 5 Today something different 🐍🦎🐢🐊🐸 Hotel change and the Snake Recovery! A small reptile zoo with attached shops. Their snakes, chameleons, and various other animals are...

Day 4 in Minnesota Today was a great day that started with rain and thunderstorms ⛈️ We had planned to meet Jennifer, Chris, and their kids Amalia and Michael at Taylors Falls...

There's also non-alcoholic IPA!

Today we first went to Willow-River State Park to see the waterfall. https://widnr.widen.net/view/pdf/xjiobes3jm/Willow-River_Map.pdf?t.download=true&u=cgj4gi You can really...

Woke up at 4.30 😴 Oops! By 7 we were having breakfast, which was quite okay, except that everything came on disposable tableware 🤨 So, first thing today, we bought two travel...

The flight was quite pleasant. Food OK, movie selection, not so much... Unfortunately, the Frankfurt airport is really at its limit, as the nice lady at check-in confirmed......

Departure!