Category: Minnesota
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A Tale of Two Forks, pt. 2 – East Grand Forks, MN
The Red River is one of the few major rivers that flow north.  It originates at Lake Traverse in Minnesota and flows northward to Lake Winnipeg in Canada, forming the state border between Minnesota and North Dakota. In my previous post we talked about the Canadian part of the Red River which forks with the Assiniboine River (marked as #2 on…
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Exploring the Headwaters of the Mississippi – Lake Itasca, MN
I have always wondered where some of America’s largest rivers originate.  We’ve hung out around many rivers – big and small – yet we’ve never seen the actual place where any of them originate.  Now that we’re in Minnesota I can finally visit the beginning of the celebrated Mississippi River.  My first glimpse of the Mighty Mississippi…
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A glimpse of the City of Lakes – Minneapolis, MN
With Betsy’s family reunion out of the way, we trekked up north to the land of 10,000 lakes and a billion+ mosquitoes, Minnesota.  Our home base for this stop was at River Terrace Park in Monticello (Steve’s review here).  We planned to spend only one day in Minneapolis, and our friends Joe and Judy, who lived…
