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“We’ve been thrown out of nicer places than this”. Somehow that

didn’t seem the best retort. We ended up at My Sister’s Place Bar
and Grill. Everyone had a tattoo including our waitress and

hostess. Good food though even though it was typical of all meals

here – NO vegetables. This is meat, fish, pork and potato country.
The closest one comes to a veggie is coleslaw.

The diary’s done, the Web site is current, and the laundry is clean.

Time to get to bed as we will be up early in the morning to take a
scenic drive to the northwest back towards Boundary Waters

Canoe Area Wilderness. All is well.

WEEK FIVE

GRAND MARAIS and GRAND PORTAGE

Sunday - The weather today was the best yet. Clear blue skies and
temperatures in the 70’s. Fabulous.

We drove for a couple of hours on a road called the Gunflint Trail.

It climbs out of town and follows a ridge along the low Sawtooth
Mountains overlooking Lake Superior. This gives magnificent views

of the Lake as well as access to many small lakes and rivers. Unlike
around Ely, you can actually get to the edges of multiple lakes with

gorgeous views. Unfortunately, we saw no big animals today.

We got to see more of the damage done by the July 4, 1999

storm. It hit very hard close to the city. The storm is called a
derecho. It is not a hurricane or tornado with circular winds but

rather straight-on winds of nearly 100 miles per hour. The winds
lasted less than 20 minutes and knocked over more than 20

million trees.

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