Day 3: Minnesota's North Shore

Driving down Highway 61 while listening to Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited seems out of place. The real highway is open and gorgeous, winding its way along the shore of Lake Superior from Duluth to the Canadian border. Dylan's 61 is far more threatening and obtuse.

Today was rainy and cold, the temperature hovering around the 45 degree mark throughout the day. It feels more like March than mid-June. The rivers that feed into Lake Superior are all swollen and rushed. It appears that any more rainfall will cause the rivers to overtake the highway, washing it away in many places.

The Grand Portage area is awesome, definitely worth the drive up there. The image above is from one of the many scenic overlooks in that area.

Places visited: Two Harbors, Silver Bay, Lutsen, Grand Marais and Grand Portage, MN. Grand Portage National Monument. Cascade River and Tettegouche State Park.

Day 2: Fargo to Duluth

Day two was spent mostly on Minnesota Highways 34 and 200 through the North Woods, passing by a whole lot of small lakes and this enormous Paul Bunyan statue in Akeley.

I'm really intrigued by Duluth with its 45 degree sloped downtown streets and towering bridges linking to Superior, Wisconsin. The entire city literally overlooks Lake Superior thanks to the huge hills that tower over the lakeshore. Tomorrow I'll be heading up the north shore towards Ontario.

Places visited: Hawley, Detroit Lakes, Park Rapids, Nevis, Akeley, Walker, Remer, Jacobson and Duluth, MN. Superior, WI. Height Of Land and Leech Lakes. Chippewa National Forest.

Day 1: Omaha to Fargo

Today was day one of my Great Lakes trek, a 2200 mile road-trip from Omaha to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and back. I'm not sure what I'm hoping to accomplish with the trip photography-wise, but hopefully something will develop over the next few days. I just picked up a used Fuji GW670 and will be (attempting) to shoot in black and white for the first time in quite awhile.

I didn't plan to spend much time searching out things to photograph on the way to Fargo, so there's not much to report for today. The photograph above is of a huge rainstorm I encountered near Peever, South Dakota.

Places visited: Akron, Chatsworth, Hawarden and Larchwood, Iowa. The three corners (IA, MN and SD). Fargo, ND.

Image: view from Cedar Hill (2008)

This is the view from what is known as Cedar Hill in Saunders County, Nebraska. The image was captured late in the afternoon on a very cold day in February. All that stands on this spot at the present is a Catholic church, which is where my Grandparents were married many years ago.