Ask anyone who has lived in Minnesota what their Prince story is and you will hear some variation of their golden memory of a First Avenue appearance, being his neighbor, or running into him a drug store. For such a large metro area, it’s pretty incredible the impact Prince made. I moved to Minnesota in…
The Mankato Murals have been on my bucket list for a long time. Our plan was to visit the town during the summer of 2021 but my daughter Maddie, my mural hunting buddy, passed away unexpectedly. You will see her face in many of my other mural posts. The way we remember her on the…
The Minnesota Ice Castles are back after a year off.
In 2020, Minnesota farmers planted 77,000 acres of sunflowers. According to the National Sunflower Association, that number is just shy of the 80,000 acres Kansas, the Sunflower State, planted this year. With that said, two other Midwest neighbors have those stats beat. North Dakota planted 570,000 acres while South Dakota planted an astounding 620,000 acres….
Finding free things to do in Duluth, Minnesota is easy-breezy. When my family took a weekend trip to Duluth our goal was to spend as much time as possible outdoors. Our wish was granted. What we were pleasantly surprised by was how many free things there were to do in the Duluth. The best part…