Days one and two

Okay I thought this got posted yesterday but it seems to have gone into cyber space so here it a copy and paste of the first two days.
Today, we did a few caches as we meandered west going to Ashland and Superior, WI so we can eventually make a full circle around Lake Superior. The weather was in the high 40's and overcast but no rain.

We picked up a few caches in Ashland, Cornucopia and Port Wing getting many great photos of the Gitche Gumie. We found 7 Wisconsin caches.

After getting gas in Superior ($2.75 per gallon) and passing some familiar places we stopped for a picnic lunch at Brighton Beach just north of Duluth. The lake shore was gorgeous. Taking the north shore scenic drive up to Grand Portage we watched the fog slowly creep in and out, as we grabbed a few caches along the way. I had been to Gooseberry Falls back in 1986, so it was neat seeing that place again. We located 4 Minnesota caches.

Stopping to get gas in Grand Portage ($2.71 per gallon) and making sure our passports were ready, we crossed the border at 4:35, CST. The young lady with the bullet proof jacket had to ask us many questions about where we were from, where we were heading and what we had with us. After answering satisfactorily, she let us know we needed to sign our passports to make them valid and granted us permission to enter.

We laughed at the billboards that inform where things are located by the number of stop lights, not the street names. We adjusted our knowledge that 90 KM per hour is the same as 55 MPH. The hills were magnificant and reminded us of the Copper Harbor area. After passing 3 signs warning us that at night there are dangerous moose crossings, we stopped for our first Geocache out of the USA. At the edge of Thunder Bay, a city with a population of 110,000, we stopped at Norway's monument which commerates Norwegian Canadians who pioneered ski jumping. There was a ski jump on the side of the hill not far from that spot.

We grabbed one more quick cache before getting a room at the Comfort Inn. We ate our dinner at "Joe's on Arthur", then headed back to our room to get settled in.