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hurricane force winds they had hit here on July 4, 1999. There

were 350,000 acres of land laid waste by that tremendous storm.
We were on the fringe so there were a lot of trees topped and

down but also enough forest was standing to make it an agreeable

ramble. We skirted several lakes and were high enough up on
ridges to look down on them. The waters were clear and the forest

pristine. We did not see any wildlife however. There were only a
couple other people seen in the 3 hours it took us to make the

loop, which made it quiet and peaceful.

We found a beautiful roadside overlook for our lunch and then
drove to Virginia, Minnesota to have the tires changed. Our exact

tires were not on the recall list but we decided that we would still

have more peace of mind if we didn’t have even a second cousin
of the offending tire on our car once we got back into really hot

weather in the south. That seems to be where most of the
horrendous accidents have occurred.

We’re going to the movies tonight to see Clint Eastwood’s “Space

Cowboys” and have popcorn for supper. Decided if we had to be in
a “big” town tonight, we might as well avail ourselves of the big

city life. Tomorrow is a long drive day back up north to Ely and

then east to the western shore of Lake Superior.

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