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A Tuskegee Airmen Memorial
While wandering around in South Carolina we ran across a small memorial to WWII’s Tuskegee Airmen, the first black Americans to be trained and deployed as fighter pilots. This is significant because at the time, in spite of prior demonstration of their ability to fight like white men in the Revolutionary, Civil and Indian wars,…
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… to the Sea
It would be a shame to cross half the country, camp within an hour-and-a-half of the ocean and not get our feet wet. So we did. Edisto Beach State Park, on the Atlantic south of Charleston, is on an ‘island’ of sorts, surrounded by salt marshes. It’s somewhat quiet in winter and out of the…
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Congaree
We’ve spent the last few days camping in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Part of my half-thought out plan for this trip was to check out one of the few National Parks in the Eastern US, Congaree National Park. The park preserves thousands of acres of hardwood bottomlands, some of which are old growth. In…
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Trail of Tears
Or … how ’bout y’all start heading west. To Oklahoma. On foot. We’re back on the road, this time heading generally southeast, a first for us. We’ve been west many times, but to the east/souteast only once – the Everglades. We’ve never set foot in the Carolinas, the Virginias or Alabama, for example. Part of…
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You know you are in Ely when …
The twenty-six mile marathon is also a twenty-six mile portage. Ely Minnesota is a gateway to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, where outfitting and guiding is a significant contribution to the local economy. It makes sense then, that the annual Ely Marathon has a ‘Portage’ class where runners portage their canoes (I. E. run…
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Revisiting the BWCA, Minnesota’s Wilderness
Minnesota is home to a million-acre tract of undeveloped, protected wilderness area called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It’s located along 150 miles of the US-Canada border, adjacent to the even more-remote Quetico wilderness area in Canada. Travel is by canoe, portaging between lakes & camping in designated lakeside campsites. The BWCA is a…
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Michael Janke 