Black River Harbor MI to Minneapolis (Summer 2021)

 

Minneapolis is the 4th most populous metropolitan area (after LA, Phoenix, and Riverside/San Berdoo) Ludwig has ever been driven in, to our knowledge.
Historical aside: He was shipped from the factory in Hannover to San Francisco (Ludwig has almost certainly been through the Panama Canal!) but it's not known if he was sold in that vicinity, so we can't say with certainty that he's been driven in the San Francisco metro area. He might've gotten put on a train or truck at the port and sent along to Reno or Sacramento or Bishop, for all we know.

Walker Art Center

Big Bay State Park to the UP (Summer 2021)

Leaving Madeline Island on the ferry. If I had known, I would have allowed for two days at Big Bay State Park on Madeline Island and only one day at the next place, but hindsight is 20/20 and all.

Some of the many cataracts on the Black River

The gas station in Bessemer where we stopped before driving into Black River Harbor Campground is now the furthest East we've ever had Ludwig.

Cadotte Lake to Big Bay State Park (Summer 2021)

                                                                             Duluth Co-op

Madeline Island Ferry

Big Bay State Park, on the big lake they call Gitche Goomi

Lake Superior Summer 2021: Valley City to Itasca Lake State Park

The (alleged) source of the Mississippi River:

Lake Superior Summer 2021: Across Minnesota

Their rear driver's side wheel is off the ground.

Lake Superior Summer 2021 Day 2: Theo. Roosevelt Nat'l Park to Valley City

Wind Canyon overlook (Little Missouri River)

By day's end we'd driven across most of North Dakota and the Laurentian Divide. Ludwig hadn't been in the Hudson Bay watershed since 2007.

Even all the way out at Mel Reiman Campground, North of Valley City, we couldn't escape the smoke entirely. That's the Sun a little left of center.

miles 224,940-245,256

Lake Superior Summer 2021 Day 1: Sully Creek State Park

Two Summers ago we had planned on driving Ludwig to Crater Lake and Redwoods and the Oregon coast and Rainier and all that, but there were a lot of fires out that way that year which threatened not only to negatively impact our breathing, but could outright cut us off of primary routes and send us hundreds of miles out of our way. At the last minute we decided to go to the tip of the UP instead.

Some of these pictures are E's.

landscape near Glendive

near Medora ND and Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Sully Creek State Park (Theo. R. NP was full)

miles (2)44,533 to (2)44,940