Day 2- On to Duluth

Today after church we headed even farther North into Minnesota.

Faith Assembly of God
This is Tim and Lisa's church they pastor in Pine River.

 We are ready to start our whirl wind tour of northern Minnesota.

We are on our way, cheered on by beautiful blue skies

and fluffy white clouds.

Where is Duluth?

from: bing.com/maps

Duluth

  is a city of about 87,000 people in northern Minnesota.

 It is one of the most scenic cities in the Midwest. 

Photo opportunity of Yatzi & Lisa at Thompson Hill Travel Center.
We stopped here before heading into Duluth.

The views here are spectacular.

This is one of my photos taken at the center.
It started to rain as soon as we arrived, so most of my photos were taken inside.

An inside map of the area.
My photo below.

St Louis River

These are photos of the map inside of the center
 showing an overview of the area.
My photos are not labeled.
I took them to compare mine with the map.

The Duluth Harbor welcomes over 1,000 ocean-going and Great Lakes freighters annually.

Duluth is the fourth largest city in Minnesota.
 At the westernmost point of the Great Lakes on the north shore of Lake Superior, Duluth is linked to the Atlantic Ocean 2,300 miles (3,700 km) away via the Great Lakes and Erie Canal/New York State Barge Canal or Saint Lawrence Seaway passages and is the Atlantic Ocean's westernmost deep-water port.

The St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 allowing oceangoing ships to reach Duluth.

from:http://www.d.umn.edu/internationalstudents/fun_facts.html

Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined.

http://www.d.umn.edu/internationalstudents/fun_facts.html

Back on the road.

I took a picture of the iconic Duluth Trading Co. sign.

Here's the story of how it got started.

It goes like this.
Back in 1989, there were these two brothers in Duluth – wild and woolly, hippie tradesmen kinda guys, working in the construction business. Every day, they saw guys dragging a jumble of tools from job to job using discarded five-gallon drywall compound buckets. A few of the guys strung wire around the bucket to hold tools, or even used bungee cords. The two brothers thought, "There's got to be a better way." So they invented the Bucket Boss® – a ruggedly durable canvas tool organizer that fit on a drywall bucket.
One thing led to another, and pretty soon they came out with a little catalog called Portable Products. Under the heading "Job Tough, Job Smart," it offered 8 pages of products dedicated to improving and expanding on existing methods of tool storage, organization and transport.

For more go to: Duluth Trading Co.

I love the rainy, cloudy day.
Beautiful photo shots!

I posted so many pictures because they remind me of
 lovely water color paintings.

Heading along the North Shore.

Our next stop is at Betty's Pies at Two Harbors, Minnesota.
My next blog post will have of one of Betty's pies,
and the name of her cookbook so you can make one of them for yourself.
Lisa gave one of Betty's cookbooks for Christmas!
She is famous around here.

Our day is not over!
We will journey farther North, then return to Duluth for more sights.