Lois Elaine will give you the entire historical overview of the Lake Alice area if you are inclined and have the time. ... I'm certain of...

The Hungry Duck Restaurant is kind of a misnomer for a place that you will absolutely, in no way, ever leave hungry. The Hungry Duck has...

Tonight, I watched my two favorite baseball teams play in historic Wrigley Field, on a laptop taking wifi from my cellphone. As I basked...

We've certainly never had a bad canoe adventure, but our absolute favorite "Unit 1" outing was early in our first year our new canoeing...

I'm certain that my love affair with the city of Chicago started when I was kid. Growing up in a small, northwestern Minnesota town, I...

If you were to list the Top 5 things that Shelley and I like to do together, it would include: canoeing, eating, finding new beers,...

If you pressed me to tell you my most favorite Minnesota town, it'd be a toss up between my spiritual home in Bemidji, where I grew into...

I am convinced that the absolute best literary genre is the travelogue. Well ... unless it is a travelogue book that is built on a...

Our second run ever in "Unit 1" was to a small lake in Becker County that was near where we dropped our girls off with their dad for a...

Nine years ago today, I was on a mission trip with our oldest son, Garrett, to Green Bay, Wis., hosted by our home church at the time....

It took a month into summer last year before we finally got Unit 1 out into the water. Our commitment to "canoe every chance we got" in...

I often over some of our prairie public lands because I enjoy the woods so much, but recently I got the chance to hang out with Siri's...

"That would be my dream job," I told Shelley as we were deep into National Geographic Channel's six episode series called "Rogue Trip."...

In late February this year, I spent the last days of what would be a lingering late winter month for us here in Minnesota in Raleigh,...

Last year was a hectic travel season for work, with me being gone on average two weeks a month trying to get a new media start-up company...

So thanks to a doozy of a blizzard that knocked airline travel offline for days, and snarled all the flights across the Midwest for days,...

So my 17-hour travel odyssey has ended with me in a hotel room in Denver. Sweaty, stinky, with no clothes or tooth brush or CPAP. ......

It's human nature to overlook the natural resources in our own back yard. After all, we see them every day, and soon we take them for...

Yesterday we returned to Anderson Lake, where our canoeing adventures began together. This was the first lake that we ever put "Unit 1"...

It seems a travesty that it was August before we got "Unit 1" into the water this summer. But thanks to a combination of the backyard...