{"id":6486,"date":"2016-01-29T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2016-01-29T12:44:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:44:06","slug":"how-i-spent-my-summer-or-life-on-a-northern-minnesota-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/29\/how-i-spent-my-summer-or-life-on-a-northern-minnesota-island\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Spent My Summer or Life on a Northern Minnesota Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This was supposed to be posted in the summer of 2013 but it got stuck in my Drafts folder. Actually, I want to write many many more good things about Minnesota and tighten up the writing here but I figure it&#8217;s time to just let this post fly)<\/p>\n<p><strong>How I Spent My Summer or Life on a Northern Minnesota Island \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Megan and I spent the last 2 weeks on a privately owned island with friends that may have well been family.<\/p>\n<p>Located roughly between the triangle between Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, and Duluth in more ways than one, we had a tremendous vacation.<\/p>\n<p>The island was formed by glaciers some twenty thousand years ago, stretching long and lean eleven hundred feet north-south and mostly 100 feet wide, but bulging out to almost 500 feet east-west at the northern proboscis.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Norway-Island.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Norway-Island-300x292.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Norway-Island-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Norway-Island-200x194.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Norway-Island-50x48.png 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Norway-Island.png 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Megan and I got in a lot of living on our trip!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The surprisingly glorious Mall of America<\/li>\n<li>Sailing near Canadian waters with Don &amp; Craig<\/li>\n<li>Swimming in Rainy Lake<\/li>\n<li>Kettle Falls boat trip &amp; lunch (fried walleye and a Reuben!) &amp; touring with Robin, Becky and Lucas<\/li>\n<li>Working on the Review Islands with Robin &amp; Bob, getting a tour of historic Mallard Island and Ernest Oberholtzer&#8217;s legacy<\/li>\n<li>Playing dominoes &amp; Set &amp; Settlers of Catan<\/li>\n<li>Shooting Star gazing on the dock with family<\/li>\n<li>Being the last car in the Ranier Days parade!!<\/li>\n<li>Getting a tour of the house &amp; garden of Sarah &amp; Don&#8217;s place in International Falls<\/li>\n<li>Seeing Don Johnson&#8217;s Memoir Books of life on Rainy Lake at Coffee Landing&#8230; and then seeing the originals in the house on the island<\/li>\n<li>Megan saw Planes with Sarah, Don &amp; Billy<\/li>\n<li>Great food: spaghetti with homemade sauce, tamari chicken, cold quinoa salad, pancakes, frittata&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>Sunsets seen from the Happy Shack<\/li>\n<li>Getting a tour of the (1,000&#8242; x 200&#8242;) island<\/li>\n<li>Looking for blueberries on the island and only finding sour mini cherries<\/li>\n<li>Billy saying &#8220;there&#8217;s water on the floor in the bathroom&#8221; (uh oh!), &#8220;I&#8217;m not talking at you!&#8221;, &#8220;That&#8217;s my moon&#8230; you can look at it&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Living in the &#8220;1st cabin&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A giant spider with egg sack living in our outhouse<\/li>\n<li>Dockboy Lee! &#8211; cuz he&#8217;s often the first one to the dock when a boat arrives, to help bring stuff up the hill<\/li>\n<li>Stomping trees with Chris<\/li>\n<li>Getting 10-12 hours sleep per night!<\/li>\n<li>Chickens doing their job with their vuvuzelas for our breakfast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This was supposed to be posted in the summer of 2013 but it got stuck in my Drafts folder. Actually, I want to write many many more good things about Minnesota and tighten up the writing here but I figure it&#8217;s time to just let this post fly) How I Spent My Summer or Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}