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We'll be in NYC next weekend visiting our daughter. Even though we don't drive into the Manhattan area where she lives, just driving around the periphery is crazy. Going to go up into the Catskills for a long weekend and then back into the city for a night.

I saw pictures of the lines up there. Crazy. Had to be 300 cars parked at the Bean and Bear Lake trail head in Silver Bay.

This picture was taken right as you come out of Silver Creek Tunnel heading south to Two Harbors, MN on Saturday night. Traffic was backed up from T.H. all the way to here, 4.5 miles. These are all people heading home after coming up to see the leaves change colors, like they don't change...

Had to go get the mail last night and as I headed back I saw this.

I'll throw a couple more out here. One is from West Bay, Roatan from last winter and the other is Coeur D Alene, Idaho.

Its funny as I was driving in that day and knew it was going to be a great sunrise and then saw the boat out there as well. Watched for about 15 miles til I came to the perfect spot to get the picture. Wish I'd had a better camera than just my I phone. If anybody is familiar with the north shore...

This is the sunrise over the Lee Tregurtha one morning as I was driving to work.

The Northern Lights were out again last night. Not quite as bright as we had earlier this year but still fun to see.

We had a great time like usual. Didn't buy a lot, biggest purchase was a tunnel bag for the new to me RMK. Polaris had a clearance tent there and the tunnel bags were $100, normal price was $359 so that was a good deal. Got my new sled from Montana delivered. The dealer from there had a big swap...

That is an old picture, he was only about 8 months old then. He's now 5+ and he's a beast. 90-95 lbs but the happiest dang dog ever.

Anybody going this year? We'll be there for about our 30th straight year, camping as usual in the Chicken Coop across the highway. Don't really have anything to shop for but I'm sure I'll find something. If you're wandering thru the woods section of camping at the Chicken Coop and you see a gray...

Had a beautiful 45 degrees on the drive in this morning and HayDays is in 2 weeks. The season is almost here!

Since its going to be my first winter as a retired/unemployed person I am hoping for a great snow year on the north shore. But just in case it doesn't happen we've booked a months worth of VRBO's split between Island Park, ID and Seeley Lake, MT. And of course since we did that I decided I...

Great question. We can stay on Cobra for the first 18 months but that's kind of expensive. We've priced out insurance on MNCare and if the subsidies stay in effect that will be super cheap for us next year but after that when we can start withdrawing from my 401K it'll jump up quite a bit. Since...

Yes, we did move to the cabin last June but this is most likely not our final destination. Still trying to figure that spot out and that will determine if we keep this. Giving some thought to building near you in Shell Lake on the family farm that i grew up on, and being near my dad would be a...