Tag: Camping
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Pothole Prairie
There is a stretch of the Northern prairie that was originally covered with small ponds, wetlands & lakes left over from the retreating Wisconsin Glacier – I.E. potholes. I guess that makes this a ‘pothole prairie‘. The glacial remnants cover southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and parts of Manitoba, Montana, North & South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.…
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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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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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Blooming Prairies
With a recent addition of a new lithium battery and miscellaneous rewiring, I thought it’d be a good idea to take the camper out for a couple of nights and seeing if all my mucking around actually works. The weather this week was perfect for camping and there are a few state parks in southern…
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Swamp Tour II – Summary
We got back to Minnesota (and cold weather) last week. Smooth trip, no issues. Spent quite a few nights in Louisiana State Parks, hit a handful of wildlife refuges, and visited family in Houston. We covered the same general area as “Swamp Tour I“, but skewed towards the east just a bit. This trip started…
Michael Janke 