The Last Great American Frontier

My travel bucket list has mostly included places that are foreign, exotic, distant, unfamiliar. Places that have names I cannot pronounce or languages I do not speak. But, curiously, in our cruising experiences, we have met fellow passengers from all over the globe, some from those very places I find so alluring, and many of…

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Norwegian Capital of the U.S.

I am no stranger to Minnesota, as we recently packed up the car and the dog, and headed to the north woods for a weekend family celebration. I spent a couple of weeks every summer of my childhood in the family station wagon, as we wound our way north on our annual vacation. My dad,…

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