Shade. Day 28. On the way to Black Hills and Custer State Park.
Really appreciate shade after 4 days without it. Sun is 97°F here in Custer State Park but because it's dry, it's quite comfortable in the shade.
View from the our campsite.
Passion Projects. Days 20, 22, 23. Marquette, MI. Duluth, MN. Vining, MN.
My favorite part of traveling is running into someone's passion project. Sometimes I just ask myself "why?" But I also have to admire the determination, time and skill an individual pours into a passion. Here are three examples from our last few days. Junkyard www.lakenland.com --is a sculpture garden by laid off ironworker, former marine Ted Lakenland near Marquette MI. Back around 2003 his found object iron sculptures were whimsical. Then around 2015 they become more angry and political. He also did a cool MT Rushmore treatment of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her team on honor of covid. The World of Accordions Museum www.worldofaccordions.org -- is where accordions get all kinds of respect. In old church in Superior, WI Helmi Harrington displays her collection of 2300 concertinas, accordions, harmonicas from 1820 to ¹today. She has spent her life performing, studying and cataloguing these instruments and at 75 years of age it's been her
What a vast expanse out there! Oddly, beautiful.
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