When the racists make themselves known 😔 (for those who don't know that's the old Minnesota flag, they redesigned it due to it having racist imagery. But the maga folks here refuse to fly the new one)

💐 ❤️ Congratulations Taylor and Travis ❤️💐

My six year old cousin is selling oreos for 25 cents 😂😂 (she loves fourth of July, it's probably her favorite holiday lol)

I just learned if you spend an hour in a hot tub and your fingers are pruny, then the fingerprint unlock feature on your phone doesn't work 😂🤣

Finally made it up north, feels like I've been either driving, packing or unpacking all day 😂😂😂🚘

I'm supposed to already be on tbe road but my clothes aren't dry yet ugh

Leaving Duluth, driving 2.5 hours home, just to turn around and drive another 2 hrs 45 mins to the family cabin later this afternoon 🤣🤣 I didn't plan that out very well lol.

Cooking over a fire when it's still fairly hot is not the best idea. Unfortunately we only really brought food that has to be cooked on a fire. I don't exactly have enough gas for my stove to cook it that way lol

I'm WORN OUT from today. We really packed a lot in for one day, trying to make up for wasting half the day yesterday on my car issues. But it's a good kind of exhausted. Trying to find just a little more energy to make a fire tonight and cook dinner on it

Duluth arial lift bridge!

Hanging out in canal park in downtown Duluth, watching the Arial lift bridge go up to allow the sailboats to pass. The Arial lift bridge is an iconic attraction in the Duluth harbor - lots of people hang out in canal park to watch the ships come in and out

We toured the William Irving museum (a decommissioned iron/taconite ore ship that's now a museum in the Duluth harbor near Canal Park) Highly recommend if you are in Duluth!

Black Sand Beach, Beaver Bay, Lake Superior MN The seagulls were giving 1989 vibes 🤣

Shovel Point, Lake Superior. If you ever get a chance to stop by Tettegouche State Park, this is a must do hike! There are lots of steps, so beware. Other than that, it's a 3/4 mile out and 3/4 mile back with gorgeous views the entire time!

I just found a dead firefly in the cabin. I found him because his butt was still sort of glowing and all the lights in the cabin were off, he must have died very recently, I had no idea they continued to glow after they've died! But I looked it and apparently they glow for up to an hour after death!

Giant cherry tree on a rainy day in Japan. Photography by Akihiko Fukuyama

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Gooseberry Falls State Park

Car starts very well now lol.

New battery is installed, and the price was about what I was expecting ($317)for both the battery and installation. Still not fun to have to unexpectedly spend that much 😭

If you are participating in the spread of information about Taylor and Travis' wedding (whether they are false rumors or actual information) then I just lost a ton of respect for you as a swiftie. We know taylor doesn't want it leaking, so if it's real you're participating in that. And if (cont)...

At the auto shop getting a new battery. While I technically have enough money for it, it's definitely not something that was in my budget. Ugh. Going to have to really be on an extra tight budget til my next paycheck 😭😭

Car won't start. Waiting for AAA. So I guess today is going to be kinda shot because it's going to take them 90 mins to get here and jump it (or tow if they can't get it started). Then we gotta take it to actually get a battery installed.

I just got word the cabin survived the storm as well as all the trees. I'm pretty sure there's no power right now though. But that should be back up by the time we get there for the fourth of July weekend. Confirmed 65mph winds though!

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Ugh, as if the weather I've been dealing with couldn't get any worse. I just got an alert of a tornado very close to my families cabin, along with 65mph winds and golf ball sized hail. Just texted my cousin that we should call and make sure the cabins still there before we go up for the 4th 😭

Well I think my cars battery is shot. It started a little bit ago, but barely. And earlier I had to get it jumped to start. I drove it around for a while so the alternator would charge it enough to get it to the shop tomorrow. 😭 has anyone had good luck at autozone for batteries?

One of my favorite places up here.

I made it to the cabin but not before some issues with my car - I accidentally left my car door open while I was loading it (for like over an hour) and the battery wouldn't start. I had to have a neighbor jump my car. I'm hoping it's solved but I might take it to the mechanic in the morning

Forecast heat index in Minnesota and western Wisconsin today. 🥵🥵 Thankfully I'm headed to the north shore today (til Thursday) where it's way better lol. That wasn't even planned on purpose to escape the heat, we've had these reservations for almost a month now 😂

It's only 9am and the heat index is already at 98 degrees. Oooof

I'm exhausted. I just took apart my old bed frame, had my mattress disposed of, went to go pick up my new bedframe and mattress and put together the entire thing. I've been working on this since 10:30 this morning and I only just finished 😩I also had to move my ac to make it all fit so I'm hotttt🥵

I swear cats are smarter than wet give them credit for and understand more of what we say than we realize. I just said aloud "I wonder if I have a churu left?" (brand of cat treat) my car immediately stares at me intently and licks her lips and goes to where I store them!

Omg Travis is so lucky! 🤣🤣🤣 (found on IG... I don't have an X account)

I just checked the weather forecast for the twin cities next week/weekend for fourth of July. In Minneapolis the heat index will be 106🥵🥵 even 2.5 hours north the heat index will STILL be 102 🥵🥵 omg my tiny air portable conditioner won't keep up 😭

Chipmunks having the time of their lives raiding the dumpster like raccoons 🤣🤣 he looks guilty because he was caught 😂

We just got out schedule for next year (I think it's evil to send it out three weeks into summer 😭) and kindergarten has the absolute WORST schedule of the entire school. We have first lunch (10:40)and then no breaks at all again til specialists at the END OF THE DAY. ugh.

Looks like potential rain at like 1-2pm today. Looks like I'm packing up before that (even though I have the site til 4pm)because I hate packing everything up wet lol.

I started my fire with a farro rod again! I tried to record it the first time (the cell phone was literally held up by my knees bc I don't have a tripod lol) but the camera wasn't recording 😭 so I did it again, just because I knew some of my family would never believe me otherwise 😂😂😂

Why do boat owners feel the need to blast music that can be heard for miles? I'm camping in the woods a good half mile from the lake with thick woods in between. You are on the complete other side of a fairly large lake. Yet I can hear your music as if you are putting on a rock concert. 😩

Fireflies! (also known as lightning bugs, depending on where you live) I used to see them all the time growing up, but I feel like I rarely see them anymore!

Oh man my aurora app says there's a 28% chance of seeing it right now (highest I've ever seen it), but there's so much tree cover in this campground you can barely see the sky. And the campgrounds close at night (you can get out but cannot get back in) so I can't drive to go to a better spot

I just started a fire using a farro rod, a small cotton ball and some birch bark. I can't believe I actually did it. It only took a couple minutes too!

Honestly with the exception of the awful rainstorm we had last night (park ranger said we got at least two inches of rain!) I couldn't ask for better camping weather for the rest of this trip. Partly sunny, high of like 78 degrees. Calm breeze. ⛅🌲🌳🏕️

Oh and does anyone know if those indoor/outdoor floor mats (the kind you wipe your feet on) can be cleaned? Basically it was outside my tent and a river of water/mud was flowing over it & under my tent all night. I'm hoping I can wash it in the water spigot? It's absolutely CAKED in mud right now 😭

Just finished hanging clotheslines in my campsite and all my muddy/wet gear is hanging to dry. I'm hoping the mud will dry up and mostly fall off (it's tarp-like material so it should?) except for a slight chance of a passing storm this afternoon, the rest of my trip looks perfect weather wise!

Also that dress she wore at the TEU concert is STUNNING. perfection.

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Listening to TLOAS while waiting for the last little bit of the storm to pass. Nothing like listening to the line in Opalite "dancing through the lightning strikes" while lighting is actually striking for real 😂🌩️⚡