A fossil fuel fueled travel blog
We headed north from Silver Bay looking for our next find from freecampsites.net. North of Tofte, MN, we found the Oxbow Rustic Campground off Sawbill Trail. There were four sites at this campground and we lucked out at site #2 – room for the trailer, a picnic table and fire pit at the main site…
We wanted to make backpacking part of our trip and decided to make our first foray into it on the North Shore. Once again, Silver Bay served us well. We could do a loop on the Superior Hiking Trail pretty much from our home base. There is a spur trail that ends near our spot…
From our home base in Silver Bay, we were able to get to some very nice paddling on Lake Superior. We were hoping to be able to meet people as we went and get recommendations for what we should explore and this worked well for us here. We picked a quiet morning to head down…
After a day of running errands in Superior and Deluth, we were ready to get back “out.” Mike was nice enough to take care of all of the driving in the cities and I was more than grateful. I still find it stressful to pull the trailer, but am pretty comfortable with longer driving. In…
We have hiked above the sea caves at Pictured Rocks in Michigan and thought it was magical so when we saw that we could do a bluff hike on the north shore, we went for it. The map said that it was possible to hike 10 miles out to a campsite, so we thought we…
When we saw how much it would cost to get Scarlet over to Madeline Island, we quickly decided to stay on the mainland. We still wanted to get some paddling in somewhere though, so after some research we decided to check out Roman Point, where there were supposed to be some sea caves. Our research…
When we told our friend Eric that we were heading up north first, he shared our website name with his dad and apparently that was enough to earn us an invitation to park at his house for a while. Jack was a superb host, offering not only power and water (and the use of his…
This is a hike that we have done before and were happy to do it once more. Beaver Lake was quite a bit busier than it had been the last time we were there and this hike was the same. Several trucks and cars in the parking lot and we didn’t have the solitude that…
While we love to tent camp, we both wanted to have a “home” while travelling for such a long time – something as small as possible while still meeting all of our needs. It took some looking at different trailers before we figured out exactly what that meant. I would walk into a trailer and…
We headed north from Sycamore on Sunday morning and as the day wore on, we decided to head straight to Beaver Lake in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. We had camped here before and loved the beautiful sites on the lake. We got in late and set up at site 10 back in the woods, but…