Virginia to Montana (FWC) to Wyoming (YNP) to Michigan (AEV)

[MEZZ2006]

Awesome trip and cool pictures! Thanks for sharing!

 

[MtnRider]

Amazing journey, thanks for sharing.

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[Skooter76]

Gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright outside Duluth, Minnesota.
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Get my propane tanks filled there. Cloquet, MN. That is my home town.

 

[old eagle]

I am nine months away from Bozeman and who knows when for the new camper.s truck. Your pictures excite me even more.

Old Eagle

 

[ramblinChet]

Get my propane tanks filled there. Cloquet, MN. That is my home town.

A super-smart friend of mine who was familiar with the area referred to it as "Arrowhead Country" and provided this picture:



That reminded me of the arrowhead shape of the roof on the gas station - interesting connection!

While reading up on the name of the area I came upon this...

The name “Arrowhead Country” was the brainchild of Pittsburgh’s Odin MacCrickart, whose idea netted him a $500 prize. MacCrickart had visited the region three times before, enjoying “beautiful views of island-sotted lakes” while riding in an open baggage car with his faithful old English sheep dog, Puppo. “For years I have believed that man can love scenery,” the newspaper quoted MacCrickart, “that is, man does not simply like, care for, or admire scenery, but is actually capable of deeply loving it. It is a primal instinct as the love of a man for a woman. Our old cave-man ancestors often sat upon the shores of lakes at twilight and dreamed dreams. And there are times when the very cells of our bodies cry out for the deep forests and the reflections of sunlight upon water.”

 

[NVYCHF]

That was an amazing trip. Thanks for taking us!!!!

 

[Skooter76]

A super-smart friend of mine who was familiar with the area referred to it as "Arrowhead Country" and provided this picture:

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That reminded me of the arrowhead shape of the roof on the gas station - interesting connection!

While reading up on the name of the area I came upon this...

The name “Arrowhead Country” was the brainchild of Pittsburgh’s Odin MacCrickart, whose idea netted him a $500 prize. MacCrickart had visited the region three times before, enjoying “beautiful views of island-sotted lakes” while riding in an open baggage car with his faithful old English sheep dog, Puppo. “For years I have believed that man can love scenery,” the newspaper quoted MacCrickart, “that is, man does not simply like, care for, or admire scenery, but is actually capable of deeply loving it. It is a primal instinct as the love of a man for a woman. Our old cave-man ancestors often sat upon the shores of lakes at twilight and dreamed dreams. And there are times when the very cells of our bodies cry out for the deep forests and the reflections of sunlight upon water.”

The "Arrowhead" is very sparsely populated being mostly wilderness dotted with many, many lakes. It is popular among canoeists and fishermen and women. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) is included and borders the Quetico Ontario Provincial Park in Canada. The Arrowhead as we know it is east of US Highway 53 between Duluth and International Falls. Most of the towns in the Arrowhead lie along the "North Shore" of Lake Superior.

A few well known personalities are from the Arrowhead. As I look at your map and a few of the towns and cities I can think of Arctic explorers Paul Schurke and Will Steger from Ely; actress Jessica Biel was born in Ely; Richard Dean Anderson (aka McGyver) part-time resident of Biwabik just south of Ely; Judy Garland (aka Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz) from Grand Rapids; Robert Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan) from Hibbing. Actess Jessica Lange is from my home town of Cloquet (she has property and a home about a mile from me).

Thanks for sharing this Chet. Let me know if you're ever up this way again.

Scott