Can You Hear Us Now?

We feel the need to explain our lack of posting lately.  Our link to the Internet is usually through Verizon.  Verizon’s coverage in Duluth is fine, as it is in the Iron Range of northern Minnesota.  Our cabin on the Whiteface Reservoir is halfway between these areas, about 15 miles from one cell tower and 20 miles from another, so Verizon is practically non-existent there.  We keep another cell phone with ATT for phone calls but that doesn’t work for blogging and internet activities.  We put up this limited connectivity because of views like this

We have kept busy, however.  Through the middle of August, we had 3 granddaughters with us for a week.  Paige had scheduled a couple of activities in Duluth, but the girls really enjoyed just hanging out in the lake and picnicking.

We have been slipping into Duluth once in awhile to help Paige’s mother and her return to normal activities at her house.  There we can get on-line to check emails, do banking, and usual 21^st century stuff, but then we go back off-line at the lake.  As we resume our travels soon, we will return to posting messages here on the blog more often.

Here is a rough schedule for the rest of our year:

-         early this week in Twin Cities for Dr/Dentist/family/MN State Fair activities
-         remainder of the week and Labor Day weekend will be back to the lake
-         after Labor Day we will have a week in Wisconsin with friends
-         2 slow weeks traveling across UP and Lower peninsulas of Michigan
-         a week with the Nomads at the Annual Meeting
-         4 weeks of wandering NY, PA, WVa
-         3 weeks working a project in eastern TN
-         a week for traveling (coastal SC and GA) into eastern Florida (Thanksgiving)
-         another 3 week project, leading a small group at a church near the coast
-         2 weeks off before the end of the year

Our holiday plans are up in the air right now but we will have lots of time to define them.

Until we get back on the road, think of us soaking up the views like the photo above.